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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 0 2 8 827
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness 0 0 0 183 0 3 7 584
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being 0 0 0 530 1 7 14 1,907
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 14 20 30 266
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 0 3 10 191
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 0 2 422 2 15 67 4,800
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 6 20 63 341 49 119 363 1,293
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 0 0 6 519
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 0 46 0 3 34 67
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 0 1 130 1 1 8 431
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 0 2 243 1 3 19 1,133
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 1 1 3 210 1 2 17 591
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 0 0 4 222 0 12 40 458
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 0 1 380 1 3 26 922
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 0 0 4 187 0 3 22 261
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 1 5 13 500
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 201 1 4 11 768
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 1 2 11 242
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 73 1 8 15 459
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 0 2 24 211
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 1 206 0 2 16 565
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 1 1 435 2 11 28 1,816
Paradox Lost? 0 1 1 149 2 3 10 232
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 2 6 14 91
The Easterlin Paradox 1 3 11 89 13 57 197 560
The Easterlin Paradox 0 1 6 117 9 35 87 532
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 0 2 6 411 2 13 50 1,164
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 0 132 10 13 26 238
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 1 50 1 5 24 129
Total Working Papers 8 29 107 5,371 115 362 1,197 21,757


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 0 98 0 1 10 318
Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 19
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 7 13 40
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 0 2 13 251
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 0 1 9 54
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 0 0 78 0 2 5 250
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 0 1 69 1 2 13 286
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 7 34
Economics 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 5
Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Gabriel Tortella. Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, 1990. Pp. x, 353 0 0 1 15 0 0 9 63
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 1 3 7 24 4 22 49 103
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 1 2 11 39
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 0 1 68 0 3 10 205
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 36
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 8 42
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 0 0 3 47 0 3 15 162
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 0 92 0 0 12 616
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 265
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 0 0 0 58 0 2 11 217
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 0 10 38 3,188
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 0 3 13 1,464
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 0 3 8 81
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 17
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 15
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 0 23 2 3 10 113
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 0 1 10 1 6 10 92
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 0 0 2 363 2 2 17 1,164
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 0 47 0 1 10 124
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 5 10 17 245
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 0 2 4 49 0 15 38 207
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 0 1 12 60
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 29
Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism 0 0 1 91 2 7 28 283
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 0 2 0 2 7 64
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 0 3 36 4 6 20 119
Paradox Lost? 0 3 9 81 3 10 30 194
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 4 13
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States 0 1 2 21 0 2 10 103
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 0 5 9 153
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 15
Structures of American Social History. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 206. $12.95 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 21
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction 0 0 4 159 2 6 18 391
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 2 5 88
The Globalization of Human Development 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 6
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 0 1 3 160 1 10 19 462
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 2 6 10 3 9 47 89
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 0 20 0 1 11 131
The Record of Global Economic Development. By Eric Jones. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xviii, 226 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 61
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 1 4 7 13 15
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 0 812 0 2 15 4,767
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 0 6 2 7 23 207
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 0 2 1 5 11 18
Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes: the case of Latin America 0 0 0 2 3 5 12 19
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 2 5 14 31
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 0 5 12 128
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 1 3 15 117
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 1 1 1 391 2 5 24 1,164
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 1 10 1 13 41 62
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 3 5 7 1,580 8 25 54 3,752
Total Journal Articles 5 18 57 5,667 57 258 873 22,277


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 7 12 102
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 1 5 38 300
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 1,760
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 57
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 442
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 4 6 26 2,145
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 3 16 373
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 359
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 63
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 57
Total Books 0 0 0 0 8 42 159 5,658


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American Population since 1940 0 0 1 38 0 4 12 206
Appendix A: Basic Data 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 18
Appendix B: Analyses of Components of Change in Total White and Total Native White Fertility 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 14
Appendix C: Detailed Notes to Appendix A and B Tables 0 0 0 5 0 2 7 34
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 0 1 3 67
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 0 0 5 29
Appendix for Chapter 4 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 26
Appendix for Chapter 5 0 0 0 8 0 1 5 25
Appendix for Chapter 6 0 0 0 8 0 2 6 28
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 0 2 6 33
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 0 0 0 9 0 3 5 24
Bibliography 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 35
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 0 0 1 1 0 3 9 59
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 27
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 1 1 14 0 1 3 38
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 0 7 16 32
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 38
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 0 1 4 69
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 3 14 43 193
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 25
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 0 1 7 35
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 0 1 2 36 0 2 6 78
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 0 1 11 2 6 13 64
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 1 44 1 2 16 123
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 0 3 10 70
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis 0 0 0 45 0 0 6 90
How Can I Increase My Happiness? 0 0 0 2 0 2 7 33
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 0 2 2 4 11 64
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 0 1 4 129 4 10 30 485
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 13
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 0 1 3 200
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 0 0 2 44 0 4 22 209
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 1 1 23 0 1 5 65
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 77
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 52
Reasons for Kuznets Cycles in Fertility of Different Population Groups 0 1 1 13 0 2 3 47
Recent and Projected Labor Force Growth in the Light of Longer-term Experience 0 0 0 34 0 4 8 73
References 0 1 1 3 0 2 5 11
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 39
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 52 0 7 22 156
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience 0 0 0 47 0 0 2 74
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes 0 0 1 32 0 0 3 61
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 0 1 7 0 1 10 36
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 1 7 11 31
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 0 1 3 139 1 5 14 363
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 34
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 0 8 20 68
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 21
Total Chapters 0 7 23 959 14 127 433 3,692


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