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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 819
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness 0 0 0 183 0 0 0 577
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being 0 1 4 530 0 2 9 1,893
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 0 0 9 236
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 0 0 1 181
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 0 0 420 1 2 3 4,734
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 8 35 199 286 24 129 561 954
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 0 1 1 513
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 2 46 2 4 12 35
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 0 0 129 0 0 0 423
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 1 2 241 0 2 8 1,114
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 0 1 2 207 0 1 4 574
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 0 1 4 218 0 2 14 418
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 0 0 379 0 2 7 896
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 1 1 4 184 1 2 7 240
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 0 3 8 487
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 1 1 201 0 1 2 757
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 0 0 1 231
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 1 2 73 0 2 3 444
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 187
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 205 0 0 3 549
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 1 1 434 0 2 4 1,788
Paradox Lost? 0 0 0 148 0 1 4 222
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 0 1 1 77
The Easterlin Paradox 0 2 9 111 2 9 65 447
The Easterlin Paradox 0 2 13 78 0 7 110 363
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 0 1 4 405 2 4 15 1,116
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 132 0 0 6 212
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 4 49 0 1 9 105
Total Working Papers 9 48 252 5,273 32 178 868 20,592


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 2 98 0 1 5 308
Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
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 1 27
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 0 2 3 238
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 45
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 2 2 78 1 4 5 246
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 1 1 68 0 1 3 273
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 0 2 27
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 0 14 0 0 1 54
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 0 1 4 17 3 9 23 57
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 0 1 6 28
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 0 1 67 0 0 4 195
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 2 8 0 0 2 33
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 1 1 35
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 0 0 1 44 0 3 5 147
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 1 1 92 0 2 5 604
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 256
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 0 0 1 58 0 0 3 206
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 3 6 28 3,153
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1,451
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 73
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 9
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 1 23 0 0 5 103
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 82
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 0 3 5 361 0 3 13 1,147
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 1 1 47 0 1 4 114
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 0 1 7 228
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 0 2 5 45 2 6 19 171
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 48
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 22
Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism 1 1 1 91 8 9 12 263
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 57
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 0 5 33 0 2 17 99
Paradox Lost? 0 0 1 72 1 2 18 165
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 9
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States 0 0 2 19 0 4 9 93
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 144
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Structures of American Social History. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 206. $12.95 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 19
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction 2 2 8 157 3 5 15 376
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 1 5 83
The Globalization of Human Development 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 0 0 3 157 0 3 14 443
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 2 4 1 4 19 43
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 1 20 0 1 3 120
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 0 0 0 2
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 1 812 0 0 3 4,752
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 1 1 6 2 10 93 186
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 7
Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes: the case of Latin America 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 7
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 17
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 116
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 0 1 4 102
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 0 0 6 390 0 0 16 1,140
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 0 9 1 2 6 22
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 1 3 19 1,574 2 7 67 3,700
Total Journal Articles 4 18 80 5,614 28 94 480 21,432


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 90
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 3 4 17 265
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 43
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 1,754
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 429
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 2 6 20 2,121
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 358
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 344
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 58
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 49
Total Books 0 0 0 0 12 28 87 5,511


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American Population since 1940 0 1 1 37 0 2 4 194
Appendix A: Basic Data 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 14
Appendix B: Analyses of Components of Change in Total White and Total Native White Fertility 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 13
Appendix C: Detailed Notes to Appendix A and B Tables 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 27
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 64
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 24
Appendix for Chapter 4 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 23
Appendix for Chapter 5 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 20
Appendix for Chapter 6 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 22
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 27
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 19
Bibliography 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 31
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 51
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 21
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 35
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 17
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 1 22 0 0 2 65
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 150
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 28
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 0 0 1 34 0 0 1 72
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 0 2 10 1 2 11 52
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 1 1 5 44 1 1 7 108
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 60
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis 0 0 0 45 0 0 0 84
How Can I Increase My Happiness? 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 26
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 1 2 0 2 9 53
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 0 0 2 125 0 1 5 455
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Introduction and Summary 0 0 2 119 0 0 2 197
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 0 0 1 42 1 2 6 188
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 0 0 22 0 0 2 60
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 68
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 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 0 0 65
References 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 6
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 35
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 2 3 50 0 2 8 134
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 72
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes 0 0 0 31 0 1 1 58
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 0 1 6 0 0 1 26
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 20
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 0 0 1 136 0 0 4 349
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 28
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 2 2 7 50
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
Total Chapters 1 4 23 937 8 22 133 3,267


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