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APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 819
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 0 2 530 1 1 7 1,894
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 0 1 9 237
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 0 0 1 181
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 1 1 421 0 1 5 4,737
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 5 9 164 300 20 59 498 1,033
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 1 1 2 514
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 1 46 0 0 12 36
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 1 1 130 0 1 2 425
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 0 2 242 1 1 7 1,116
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 0 0 2 207 2 2 6 577
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 1 1 6 220 3 5 20 426
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 0 0 0 379 2 4 9 900
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 0 0 5 185 1 1 8 242
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 0 1 10 489
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 201 0 0 2 757
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 1 1 2 232
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 1 73 2 2 4 446
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 205 1 1 3 550
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 0 0 1 188
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 0 1 434 1 3 9 1,793
Paradox Lost? 0 0 0 148 0 0 4 222
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 1 1 2 78
The Easterlin Paradox 0 2 12 80 6 13 83 382
The Easterlin Paradox 2 2 9 114 5 7 50 456
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 1 1 3 406 5 9 19 1,127
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 132 0 1 3 213
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 3 50 4 4 9 110
Total Working Papers 9 17 215 5,300 57 120 787 20,757


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 2 98 1 1 6 309
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 1 1 4 239
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 46
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor 0 0 2 78 0 0 4 246
Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? 0 0 1 68 0 0 3 274
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 4 30
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 1 15 0 0 2 55
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries 1 2 6 20 2 3 23 61
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 1 1 7 29
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 0 0 67 0 2 4 197
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 2 8 1 1 3 34
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 2 36
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 1 1 2 46 1 1 5 149
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 1 92 0 0 2 604
How Have American Baby Boomers Fared? Earnings and Economic Well-Being of Young Adults, 1964-1987 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 257
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality 0 0 1 58 0 0 3 207
Income and Happiness: Towards an Unified Theory 0 0 0 903 1 7 22 3,161
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 1,452
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 74
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 9
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 103
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 83
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 0 0 4 361 0 0 10 1,149
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 1 47 1 2 6 116
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 0 0 7 229
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 0 1 5 46 1 2 19 173
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 0 0 1 91 2 3 15 267
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 58
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 1 2 6 36 1 3 19 105
Paradox Lost? 3 4 5 76 4 6 20 172
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 2 10
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States 0 1 1 20 2 3 7 96
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 145
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 10
Structures of American Social History. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 206. $12.95 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 20
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction 0 0 7 159 2 2 16 381
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 0 3 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 1 1 3 158 2 2 14 446
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 1 2 3 6 2 16 32 60
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 1 20 1 3 5 123
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 2 4 9 4,758
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 6 1 2 50 188
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 1 2 1 1 4 8
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 0 2 17
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 2 2 3 119
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 1 4 7 106
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 0 0 4 390 3 3 15 1,143
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 1 10 2 4 8 27
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 1 1 14 1,575 2 4 45 3,705
Total Journal Articles 9 15 79 5,636 46 94 445 21,555


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 92
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 1 6 24 275
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 44
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1,754
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 435
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 1 4 21 2,126
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 2 2 8 361
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 2 2 12 346
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 59
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 50
Total Books 0 0 0 0 8 22 92 5,542


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American Population since 1940 0 1 2 38 0 1 5 195
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 1 1 3 65
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 2 2 2 26
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 2 31
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 53
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 23
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 35
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 17
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 28
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 1 1 2 66
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 6 6 15 156
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 29
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 0 0 0 34 1 1 1 73
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 1 2 11 0 1 10 54
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 3 44 1 2 8 111
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 61
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis 0 0 0 45 1 1 1 85
How Can I Increase My Happiness? 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 26
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 1 2 1 3 12 56
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 1 1 4 127 1 3 9 460
Introduction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 0 1 1 198
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 0 0 0 42 0 3 10 194
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 0 0 22 0 0 2 60
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 70
More on Money and Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 1 1 66
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 0 2 50 2 2 5 136
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 72
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes 0 1 1 32 1 2 3 60
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 1 1 2 7 1 1 3 28
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 21
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 0 0 1 137 2 3 5 353
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 29
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 51
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 16
Total Chapters 2 5 20 944 26 48 150 3,325


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