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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 1 5 8 827
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness 0 0 0 183 3 3 7 584
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being 0 0 1 530 4 7 15 1,906
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 3 7 16 252
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 3 5 10 191
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 0 2 422 5 14 66 4,798
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 6 22 70 335 34 108 369 1,244
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 0 0 6 519
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 0 46 3 3 35 67
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 0 1 130 0 0 7 430
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 1 3 243 1 6 20 1,132
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 0 0 2 209 0 3 16 590
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 0 0 5 222 4 15 42 458
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 0 1 380 1 7 26 921
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 0 0 4 187 1 4 22 261
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 2 6 13 499
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 201 2 7 11 767
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 1 1 10 241
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 73 5 7 16 458
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 1 1 206 1 4 16 565
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 2 7 24 211
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 1 1 2 435 5 11 28 1,814
Paradox Lost? 1 1 1 149 1 1 9 230
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 1 4 12 89
The Easterlin Paradox 0 3 11 88 23 68 187 547
The Easterlin Paradox 1 1 7 117 13 35 81 523
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 0 2 7 411 4 15 49 1,162
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 0 132 2 5 16 228
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 1 50 1 6 23 128
Total Working Papers 9 32 121 5,363 126 364 1,160 21,642


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 0 98 0 1 10 318
Analysis 0 0 0 0 1 3 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 7 10 13 40
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 2 2 14 251
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 1 4 9 54
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 0 1 78 1 3 6 250
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 0 2 69 0 1 13 285
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 1 3 7 34
Economics 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 4
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 2 9 63
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 0 2 6 23 7 25 47 99
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 0 2 11 38
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 0 1 68 3 4 10 205
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 0 8 1 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 2 3 8 42
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 0 0 3 47 3 3 17 162
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 0 92 0 2 12 616
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 265
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 0 0 0 58 0 4 11 217
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 6 13 41 3,188
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 2 3 13 1,464
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 2 4 8 81
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 17
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 0 0 3 0 1 6 15
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 0 23 1 2 8 111
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 1 1 10 4 7 9 91
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 0 0 5 363 0 0 18 1,162
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 0 47 1 4 10 124
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 4 5 13 240
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 0 2 5 49 10 17 40 207
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 1 6 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 9 27 281
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 0 2 0 3 7 64
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 0 3 36 0 4 17 115
Paradox Lost? 3 4 9 81 5 8 28 191
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 1 4 13
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States 0 1 2 21 0 3 12 103
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 4 5 9 153
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 2 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 3 4 17 389
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 2 5 5 88
The Globalization of Human Development 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 5
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 1 1 3 160 9 11 20 461
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 1 3 6 10 5 11 45 86
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 0 20 0 2 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 3 4 9 11
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 0 812 1 3 15 4,767
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 0 6 3 6 23 205
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 0 2 2 5 10 17
Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes: the case of Latin America 0 0 0 2 0 3 9 16
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 2 4 13 29
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 3 5 12 128
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 1 6 14 116
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 0 0 0 390 1 4 22 1,162
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 1 10 4 20 40 61
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 0 2 4 1,577 9 19 46 3,744
Total Journal Articles 5 16 58 5,662 125 290 845 22,220


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 5 7 12 102
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 2 9 38 299
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 1,759
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 3 6 16 57
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 3 5 15 442
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 2 4 24 2,141
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 2 2 17 372
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 4 8 16 359
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 56
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 63
Total Books 0 0 0 0 27 49 160 5,650


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American Population since 1940 0 0 1 38 4 5 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 2 2 7 34
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 1 1 4 67
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 0 0 5 29
Appendix for Chapter 4 0 0 0 9 1 1 3 26
Appendix for Chapter 5 0 0 0 8 1 1 5 25
Appendix for Chapter 6 0 0 0 8 1 3 6 28
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 1 3 6 33
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 0 0 0 9 3 3 5 24
Bibliography 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 35
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 0 0 1 1 2 4 9 59
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 1 2 6 27
Conclusions and Possible Implications 1 1 1 14 1 1 3 38
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 7 10 16 32
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 1 4 11 38
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 1 1 4 69
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 4 15 40 190
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 25
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 1 2 7 35
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 1 1 2 36 2 2 6 78
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 0 1 11 4 5 11 62
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 1 44 1 3 15 122
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 3 4 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 2 5 7 33
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 0 2 2 2 10 62
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 0 2 4 129 2 7 27 481
Introduction 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 13
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 1 1 3 200
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 0 0 2 44 1 6 23 209
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 1 1 1 23 1 1 5 65
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 77
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 52
Reasons for Kuznets Cycles in Fertility of Different Population Groups 1 1 1 13 2 2 3 47
Recent and Projected Labor Force Growth in the Light of Longer-term Experience 0 0 0 34 4 5 8 73
References 1 1 1 3 1 4 5 11
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 1 2 4 39
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 4 52 4 8 24 156
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 4 61
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 0 1 7 1 1 10 36
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 6 6 10 30
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 0 1 3 139 2 4 13 362
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 34
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 7 10 20 68
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 21
Total Chapters 5 8 25 959 87 152 426 3,678


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