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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 819
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness 0 0 0 183 2 2 2 579
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being 0 0 2 530 0 1 6 1,894
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 3 5 12 242
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 2 2 3 183
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 1 1 2 422 20 23 28 4,760
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 4 14 126 309 40 81 444 1,094
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 0 1 2 514
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 1 46 18 21 30 57
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 0 1 130 0 1 3 426
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 0 2 242 2 3 6 1,118
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 0 2 4 209 2 7 11 582
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 1 3 7 222 3 16 31 439
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 1 1 380 2 9 13 907
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 1 2 4 187 5 9 13 250
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 2 2 11 491
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 201 1 1 3 758
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 73 1 4 6 448
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 1 4 5 235
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 205 0 5 6 554
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 2 3 4 191
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 0 1 434 1 3 9 1,795
Paradox Lost? 0 0 0 148 2 4 6 226
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 2 4 5 81
The Easterlin Paradox 0 4 10 116 8 24 51 475
The Easterlin Paradox 0 2 10 82 38 58 96 434
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 1 4 6 409 4 14 28 1,136
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 132 5 7 10 220
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 3 50 2 9 14 115
Total Working Papers 8 33 183 5,324 168 323 858 21,023


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 1 98 2 4 7 312
Analysis 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 10
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 0 0 0 27
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 1 3 6 241
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 47
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 0 2 78 1 1 5 247
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 1 2 69 4 9 12 283
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 0 0 0 0
Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Gabriel Tortella. Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, 1990. Pp. x, 353 0 0 1 15 1 1 3 56
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 0 2 7 21 6 9 27 68
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 2 4 8 32
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 1 1 1 68 1 1 4 198
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 1 8 0 1 2 34
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 0 2 4 38
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 1 2 3 47 3 7 11 155
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 1 92 3 4 6 608
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 259
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 0 0 1 58 2 2 5 209
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 3 8 27 3,168
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 3 7 12 1,458
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 0 1 1 74
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 9
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 0 23 1 2 3 105
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 0 0 9 1 1 3 84
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 2 2 5 363 4 6 14 1,155
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 1 47 3 4 7 119
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 1 2 9 231
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 0 1 5 47 7 13 25 185
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 50
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 23
Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism 0 0 1 91 0 2 15 267
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 58
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 1 4 36 2 5 19 109
Paradox Lost? 1 4 5 77 3 10 22 178
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 0 0 1 10
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States 0 0 1 20 1 4 9 98
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 0 1 2 146
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 13
Structures of American Social History. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 206. $12.95 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 20
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction 0 0 5 159 0 4 13 383
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 2 2 2
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 1 2 3 159 1 4 13 448
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 1 3 6 4 9 35 67
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 0 20 2 3 6 125
The Record of Global Economic Development. By Eric Jones. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xviii, 226 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 60
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 1 2 4 4 6
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 0 812 3 6 11 4,762
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 6 5 7 31 194
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 1 2 1 2 5 9
Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes: the case of Latin America 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 7
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 20
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 1 3 4 120
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 1 3 9 108
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 0 0 1 390 9 15 23 1,155
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 1 10 4 6 12 31
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 0 1 8 1,575 2 12 35 3,715
Total Journal Articles 6 18 66 5,645 101 214 508 21,723


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 93
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 5 9 28 283
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 45
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 1,755
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 435
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 3 6 26 2,131
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 3 7 13 366
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 1 6 15 350
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 59
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 50
Total Books 0 0 0 0 15 33 112 5,567


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American Population since 1940 0 0 2 38 0 1 6 196
Appendix A: Basic Data 0 0 0 3 2 3 3 17
Appendix B: Analyses of Components of Change in Total White and Total Native White Fertility 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 14
Appendix C: Detailed Notes to Appendix A and B Tables 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 29
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 0 2 4 66
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 0 2 2 26
Appendix for Chapter 4 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 24
Appendix for Chapter 5 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 20
Appendix for Chapter 6 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 24
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 0 2 3 29
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 19
Bibliography 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 31
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 54
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 24
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 36
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 2 4 8 21
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 30
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 1 2 3 67
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 7 16 22 166
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 30
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 0 0 0 34 0 2 2 74
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 0 1 11 2 2 7 56
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 2 44 1 5 11 115
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 62
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis 0 0 0 45 0 2 2 86
How Can I Increase My Happiness? 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 26
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 0 2 1 3 9 58
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 0 1 3 127 3 8 15 467
Introduction 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 10
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 1 1 2 199
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 1 1 1 43 4 6 15 200
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 0 0 22 0 1 3 61
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 72
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47
Reasons for Kuznets Cycles in Fertility of Different Population Groups 0 0 1 12 0 0 1 44
Recent and Projected Labor Force Growth in the Light of Longer-term Experience 0 0 0 34 0 1 2 67
References 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 6
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 36
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 1 1 3 51 6 9 12 143
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience 0 0 0 47 0 1 2 73
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes 0 0 1 32 0 1 3 60
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 1 2 7 1 2 4 29
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 23
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 0 1 2 138 0 3 6 354
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 30
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 2 6 10 56
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16
Total Chapters 3 6 19 948 43 111 208 3,410


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