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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 1 1 9 828
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness 0 0 0 183 0 0 7 584
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being 0 0 1 531 2 4 19 1,912
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 0 6 35 272
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 0 0 10 191
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 0 1 422 1 2 65 4,802
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 10 16 68 363 41 93 409 1,422
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 0 0 6 519
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 0 46 0 0 31 67
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 0 0 130 0 0 7 432
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 0 1 243 2 3 22 1,137
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 0 0 3 210 0 0 16 591
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 0 0 3 222 1 2 38 461
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 0 1 380 0 3 28 926
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 0 2 4 189 2 6 26 267
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 1 1 12 501
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 201 1 3 15 772
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 0 0 12 243
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 73 0 1 17 461
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 0 1 24 212
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 1 206 0 3 21 570
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 0 2 436 0 1 27 1,819
Paradox Lost? 0 0 1 149 0 1 11 233
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 0 1 15 92
The Easterlin Paradox 0 1 10 90 5 10 197 573
The Easterlin Paradox 1 1 6 118 5 14 102 553
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 0 1 7 412 1 9 53 1,175
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 0 132 3 4 29 242
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 1 1 51 2 7 31 137
Total Working Papers 11 22 110 5,401 68 176 1,294 21,994


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 0 98 0 1 11 319
Analysis 0 0 0 0 1 1 13 20
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 0 0 14 252
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 0 0 11 56
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 0 0 78 0 1 5 251
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 0 1 69 0 1 13 287
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 1 5 35
Economics 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 6
Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Gabriel Tortella. Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, 1990. Pp. x, 353 0 0 0 15 0 1 10 65
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 0 0 6 25 0 0 46 105
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 0 0 12 40
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 0 1 68 1 1 9 206
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 0 8 0 0 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 0 6 42
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 0 1 3 48 0 2 16 164
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 0 92 0 2 14 618
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 265
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 1 1 1 59 2 4 15 222
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 3 7 41 3,201
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 2 4 17 1,468
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 0 2 10 83
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 17
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 1 1 4 0 2 8 17
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 0 23 0 0 10 113
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 0 1 10 0 0 9 92
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 1 1 3 364 1 1 18 1,167
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 0 47 0 0 9 124
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 0 0 16 245
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 0 0 4 50 2 10 48 220
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 0 1 13 61
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern 0 0 0 2 0 2 9 31
Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism 0 0 0 91 1 3 21 286
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 64
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 0 1 36 1 1 17 121
Paradox Lost? 1 2 10 83 1 4 31 199
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 3 13
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 0 1 9 154
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 0 159 2 3 15 394
The Globalization of Human Development 1 1 1 1 1 3 9 9
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 0 0 3 160 3 4 22 466
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 1 7 12 0 3 36 94
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 0 20 0 0 10 132
The Record of Global Economic Development. By Eric Jones. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xviii, 226 0 0 0 23 0 1 2 62
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 1 0 0 13 15
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 0 812 1 1 13 4,769
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 0 6 1 1 21 208
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 0 2 0 1 12 19
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 12 19
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 1 1 17 34
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 0 0 13 130
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 0 0 12 117
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 2 3 4 394 2 7 31 1,171
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 0 10 0 1 38 63
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 1 1 9 1,583 5 8 64 3,767
Total Journal Articles 7 12 56 5,640 32 88 859 22,155
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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 104
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 1 3 31 305
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1,760
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 57
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 444
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 0 2 23 2,148
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 2 16 375
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 362
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 58
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 63
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 9 142 5,676


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American Population since 1940 0 0 0 38 0 0 11 206
Appendix A: Basic Data 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 19
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 0 8 35
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 0 0 3 67
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 1 1 6 30
Appendix for Chapter 4 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 26
Appendix for Chapter 5 0 0 0 8 0 0 6 26
Appendix for Chapter 6 0 0 0 8 0 1 7 29
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 0 0 6 33
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 0 0 0 9 0 0 6 25
Bibliography 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 35
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 0 0 1 1 3 4 10 63
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 27
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 0 1 14 0 0 3 38
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 0 1 16 33
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 38
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 0 0 4 69
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 194
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 25
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 35
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 0 0 2 36 0 1 7 79
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 1 1 12 0 2 12 66
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 0 44 1 2 15 125
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 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 1 8 34
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 0 2 0 1 10 65
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 0 0 4 130 1 7 35 494
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 13
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 1 2 4 202
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 0 0 2 44 0 0 15 209
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 0 1 23 0 0 5 65
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 77
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 52
Reasons for Kuznets Cycles in Fertility of Different Population Groups 0 0 1 13 0 1 4 48
Recent and Projected Labor Force Growth in the Light of Longer-term Experience 0 0 0 34 0 1 8 74
References 0 0 1 3 0 0 6 12
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 39
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 52 0 2 25 159
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 0 32 2 2 4 63
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 0 1 7 0 0 9 36
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 0 0 11 31
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 0 0 2 139 1 2 15 366
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 34
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 0 3 22 72
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 24
Total Chapters 0 1 19 961 13 38 441 3,740


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