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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 822
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness 0 0 0 183 2 4 4 581
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being 0 0 2 530 5 5 10 1,899
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 3 8 12 245
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 3 5 6 186
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 1 2 422 24 47 52 4,784
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 4 13 110 313 42 103 424 1,136
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 5 5 7 519
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 0 46 7 28 35 64
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 0 1 130 4 5 7 430
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 0 2 242 8 10 14 1,126
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 0 2 4 209 5 10 16 587
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 0 2 6 222 4 17 34 443
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 1 1 380 7 14 20 914
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 0 2 4 187 7 15 20 257
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 2 4 13 493
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 201 2 3 5 760
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 73 3 5 9 451
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 5 8 9 240
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 205 7 11 13 561
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 13 16 17 204
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 0 1 434 8 10 17 1,803
Paradox Lost? 0 0 0 148 3 7 9 229
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 4 7 9 85
The Easterlin Paradox 3 5 12 85 45 97 135 479
The Easterlin Paradox 0 2 8 116 13 32 59 488
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 0 3 5 409 11 20 38 1,147
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 132 3 10 12 223
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 2 50 7 12 20 122
Total Working Papers 7 31 163 5,331 255 521 1,029 21,278


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 1 98 5 8 11 317
Analysis 0 0 0 0 6 9 9 16
Approaches to Economic Development. By Norman S. Buchanan and Howard S. Ellis. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xiv, 494. $5.00 0 0 0 6 3 3 3 30
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 8 10 14 249
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 3 4 6 50
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 0 2 78 0 1 5 247
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 1 2 69 1 10 13 284
Echoes of the baby boom and bust: Recent and prospective changes in living alone among elderly widows in the united states 0 0 0 2 0 1 5 31
Economics 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 3
Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Gabriel Tortella. Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, 1990. Pp. x, 353 0 0 1 15 5 6 8 61
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 0 1 6 21 6 13 30 74
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 4 7 11 36
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 1 1 68 3 4 7 201
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 35
General and Miscellaneous - The Economics of New Goods. Edited by Timothy F. Bresnahan and Robert J. Gordon. Studies in Income and Wealth. Volume 58. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997. Pp. x, 494. $75.00 0 0 0 5 1 3 5 39
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 0 1 3 47 4 10 15 159
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 1 92 6 10 12 614
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 262
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 0 0 1 58 4 6 9 213
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 7 14 32 3,175
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 3 9 11 1,461
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 3 3 4 77
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 15
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 0 0 3 5 5 7 14
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 0 23 4 6 6 109
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 84
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 0 2 5 363 7 13 21 1,162
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 1 47 1 4 8 120
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 4 6 10 235
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 0 1 5 47 5 17 29 190
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 4 6 6 54
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern 0 0 0 2 6 7 7 29
Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism 0 0 1 91 5 5 20 272
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 0 2 3 3 4 61
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 0 3 36 2 6 20 111
Paradox Lost? 0 1 5 77 5 11 26 183
Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics.. By Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 168. $32.00, hardcover 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 12
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States 0 0 1 20 2 4 11 100
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 2 3 4 148
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 13
Structures of American Social History. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 206. $12.95 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 21
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction 0 0 5 159 2 4 15 385
The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. By Douglass C. North. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961. Pp. xvi, 304. $6.75 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 83
The Globalization of Human Development 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 0 1 2 159 2 4 13 450
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 1 1 4 7 8 15 43 75
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 0 20 4 6 10 129
The Record of Global Economic Development. By Eric Jones. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xviii, 226 0 0 0 23 1 1 1 61
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 1 1 5 5 7
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 0 812 2 6 13 4,764
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 6 5 11 31 199
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 0 2 3 4 7 12
Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes: the case of Latin America 0 0 0 2 6 6 7 13
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 5 8 9 25
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 3 4 7 123
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 2 4 11 110
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 0 0 1 390 3 15 23 1,158
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 1 10 10 14 21 41
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 0 0 6 1,575 10 20 37 3,725
Total Journal Articles 1 10 59 5,646 207 375 673 21,930


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 95
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 7 15 34 290
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 6 7 10 51
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 1,756
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 437
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 6 11 30 2,137
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 4 9 17 370
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 1 5 14 351
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 60
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 54
Total Books 0 0 0 0 34 59 138 5,601


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American Population since 1940 0 0 2 38 5 6 10 201
Appendix A: Basic Data 0 0 0 3 1 4 4 18
Appendix B: Analyses of Components of Change in Total White and Total Native White Fertility 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 14
Appendix C: Detailed Notes to Appendix A and B Tables 0 0 0 5 3 5 5 32
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 0 1 4 66
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 3 3 5 29
Appendix for Chapter 4 0 0 0 9 1 2 3 25
Appendix for Chapter 5 0 0 0 8 4 4 4 24
Appendix for Chapter 6 0 0 0 8 1 3 4 25
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 1 3 4 30
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 0 0 0 9 2 2 2 21
Bibliography 0 0 0 9 4 4 5 35
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 0 1 1 1 1 2 7 55
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 25
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 0 0 13 1 2 3 37
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 1 5 8 22
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 4 6 7 34
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 1 2 3 68
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 9 19 26 175
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 6 6 7 23
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 3 4 6 33
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 1 1 1 35 2 3 4 76
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 0 1 11 1 3 8 57
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 2 44 4 8 14 119
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 4 5 7 66
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis 0 0 0 45 4 5 6 90
How Can I Increase My Happiness? 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 28
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 0 2 2 4 10 60
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 0 0 3 127 7 14 21 474
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 10
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 0 1 2 199
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 1 2 2 44 3 9 17 203
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 0 0 22 3 4 6 64
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 73
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 51
Reasons for Kuznets Cycles in Fertility of Different Population Groups 0 0 1 12 1 1 2 45
Recent and Projected Labor Force Growth in the Light of Longer-term Experience 0 0 0 34 1 2 3 68
References 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 7
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 37
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 1 2 4 52 5 12 17 148
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience 0 0 0 47 1 2 3 74
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes 0 0 1 32 1 1 4 61
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 0 1 7 6 7 9 35
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 1 3 5 24
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 0 1 2 138 4 5 10 358
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 32
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 2 7 12 58
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 17
Total Chapters 3 7 21 951 116 201 309 3,526


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