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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 1 7 7 826
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness 0 0 0 183 0 2 4 581
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being 0 0 1 530 2 8 11 1,902
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 3 7 13 249
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 0 5 7 188
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 0 2 422 8 33 61 4,793
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 8 20 78 329 36 116 385 1,210
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 0 5 7 519
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 0 46 0 7 33 64
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 0 1 130 0 4 7 430
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 1 3 243 1 13 19 1,131
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 0 0 3 209 1 8 17 590
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 0 0 5 222 8 15 38 454
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 0 1 380 1 13 26 920
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 0 0 4 187 2 10 22 260
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 2 6 13 497
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 201 1 7 9 765
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 73 2 5 11 453
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 0 5 9 240
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 1 1 206 1 10 15 564
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 0 18 22 209
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 0 1 434 4 14 23 1,809
Paradox Lost? 0 0 0 148 0 3 8 229
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 3 7 12 88
The Easterlin Paradox 0 0 7 116 13 35 72 510
The Easterlin Paradox 2 6 12 88 21 90 168 524
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 2 2 7 411 7 22 46 1,158
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 0 132 1 6 14 226
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 1 50 3 12 23 127
Total Working Papers 12 30 129 5,354 121 493 1,102 21,516


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 0 98 1 6 11 318
Analysis 0 0 0 0 1 8 11 18
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 6 6 33
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 0 8 13 249
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 0 6 8 53
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 0 2 78 1 2 7 249
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 0 2 69 1 2 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 0 2 6 33
Economics 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3
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 7 9 63
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 2 2 7 23 11 24 44 92
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 1 6 11 38
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 0 1 68 0 4 7 202
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 35
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 6 40
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 0 0 3 47 0 4 15 159
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 1 92 0 8 14 616
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 264
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 0 0 0 58 2 8 11 217
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 4 14 35 3,182
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 1 4 11 1,462
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 1 5 6 79
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 16
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 0 0 3 0 6 6 15
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 0 23 0 5 7 110
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 1 1 10 1 3 6 87
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 0 0 5 363 0 7 18 1,162
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 1 47 0 4 10 123
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 1 5 9 236
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 2 2 6 49 5 12 32 197
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 0 9 11 59
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern 0 0 0 2 0 6 7 29
Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism 0 0 1 91 3 12 25 279
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 0 2 2 6 7 64
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 0 3 36 2 6 18 115
Paradox Lost? 0 1 6 78 2 8 23 186
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 3 4 13
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States 1 1 2 21 2 5 14 103
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 1 3 5 149
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2 21
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction 0 0 4 159 1 3 15 386
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 3 4 86
The Globalization of Human Development 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 4
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 0 0 2 159 0 4 12 452
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 1 3 5 9 1 14 42 81
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 0 20 1 6 12 131
The Record of Global Economic Development. By Eric Jones. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xviii, 226 0 0 0 23 0 1 1 61
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 8
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 0 812 1 4 14 4,766
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 6 2 8 26 202
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 0 2 2 6 8 15
Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes: the case of Latin America 0 0 0 2 2 9 9 16
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 1 7 11 27
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 2 5 9 125
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 1 7 14 115
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 0 0 0 390 2 6 21 1,161
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 1 10 8 26 37 57
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 2 2 6 1,577 8 20 42 3,735
Total Journal Articles 8 12 61 5,657 76 372 757 22,095


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 97
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 2 14 36 297
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 9 13 54
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 1,757
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 1 4 12 439
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 0 8 24 2,139
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 370
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 5 16 355
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 61
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 54
Total Books 0 0 0 0 7 56 140 5,623


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American Population since 1940 0 0 2 38 0 6 10 202
Appendix A: Basic Data 0 0 0 3 0 1 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 3 5 32
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 0 0 3 66
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 0 3 5 29
Appendix for Chapter 4 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 25
Appendix for Chapter 5 0 0 0 8 0 4 4 24
Appendix for Chapter 6 0 0 0 8 1 3 5 27
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 1 3 5 32
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 0 0 0 9 0 2 2 21
Bibliography 0 0 0 9 0 4 4 35
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 0 0 1 1 1 3 8 57
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 26
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 37
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 0 4 9 25
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 7 10 37
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 0 1 3 68
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 7 20 37 186
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 0 7 8 24
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 0 4 6 34
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 0 1 1 35 0 2 4 76
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 0 1 11 0 2 8 58
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 1 44 0 6 14 121
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 0 5 7 67
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis 0 0 0 45 0 4 6 90
How Can I Increase My Happiness? 0 0 0 2 0 5 5 31
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 0 2 0 2 9 60
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 1 2 4 129 4 12 25 479
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 12
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 0 0 2 199
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 0 1 2 44 3 8 22 208
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 0 0 22 0 3 4 64
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 76
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 51
Reasons for Kuznets Cycles in Fertility of Different Population Groups 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 45
Recent and Projected Labor Force Growth in the Light of Longer-term Experience 0 0 0 34 0 2 4 69
References 0 0 0 2 1 4 4 10
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 0 2 3 38
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 1 4 52 3 9 20 152
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience 0 0 0 47 0 1 2 74
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes 0 0 1 32 0 1 4 61
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 0 1 7 0 6 9 35
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 24
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 1 1 3 139 2 6 11 360
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 32
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 1 5 13 61
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 19
Total Chapters 2 6 21 954 26 181 346 3,591


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