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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 0 1 6 1,894
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 0 0 0 117 2 2 11 239
Cross Sections Are History 0 0 0 156 0 0 1 181
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat 0 1 1 421 3 4 8 4,740
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence 5 14 147 305 21 61 465 1,054
Explaining Happiness 0 0 0 43 0 1 2 514
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe 0 0 1 46 3 3 12 39
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagery and Veenhoven 0 1 1 130 1 2 3 426
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence 0 0 2 242 0 1 5 1,116
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries 2 2 4 209 3 5 9 580
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence 1 2 6 221 10 13 29 436
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox 1 1 1 380 5 7 13 905
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy 1 1 3 186 3 4 8 245
Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"? 0 0 0 194 0 0 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 1 73 1 3 5 447
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification 0 0 0 32 2 3 4 234
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 205 4 5 6 554
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism 0 0 0 57 1 1 2 189
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence 0 0 1 434 1 3 9 1,794
Paradox Lost? 0 0 0 148 2 2 6 224
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 0 0 0 14 1 2 3 79
The Easterlin Paradox 2 4 10 116 11 17 52 467
The Easterlin Paradox 2 3 12 82 14 22 68 396
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited 2 3 5 408 5 11 24 1,132
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 132 2 2 5 215
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? 0 0 3 50 3 7 12 113
Total Working Papers 16 32 202 5,316 98 182 780 20,855


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A puzzle for adaptive theory 0 0 2 98 1 2 7 310
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 0 27
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men 0 0 0 53 1 2 5 240
Cross-Sections Are History 0 0 0 8 0 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? 1 1 2 69 5 5 8 279
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 31
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 3 7 21 1 4 23 62
Explaining happiness trends in Europe 0 0 0 10 1 2 8 30
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven 0 0 0 67 0 1 4 197
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 0 0 2 8 0 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 2 2 4 38
HAPPINESS, GROWTH, AND PUBLIC POLICY-super-† 0 1 2 46 3 4 8 152
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany 0 0 1 92 1 1 3 605
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 4 8 26 3,165
Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? 0 0 0 0 3 4 12 1,455
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note 0 0 0 14 0 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 1 1 2 104
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 83
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography 0 0 4 361 2 2 11 1,151
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture 0 0 1 47 0 2 4 116
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification 0 0 0 60 1 1 8 230
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism 1 2 6 47 5 7 23 178
Locational restructuring and financial crises 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 49
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 22
Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism 0 0 1 91 0 2 15 267
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 58
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes 0 2 6 36 2 5 21 107
Paradox Lost? 0 3 4 76 3 7 20 175
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 1 4 8 97
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972-1987 0 0 0 46 1 1 2 146
Reply to Bogue 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 11
Structures of American Social History. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 206. $12.95 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 20
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction 0 0 7 159 2 4 16 383
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 2 83
The Globalization of Human Development 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being 0 1 3 158 1 3 15 447
The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 1 3 6 3 12 34 63
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future 0 0 1 20 0 1 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 2 2 2 4
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 0 0 1 812 1 5 10 4,759
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era 0 0 1 6 1 2 32 189
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view 0 0 1 2 0 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 3 7
Well-Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 1 3 3 5 20
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report 0 0 0 35 0 2 3 119
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure 0 0 0 30 1 5 8 107
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? 0 0 2 390 3 6 16 1,146
Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income? 0 0 1 10 0 3 8 27
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? 0 1 11 1,575 8 12 43 3,713
Total Journal Articles 3 16 76 5,639 67 141 466 21,622


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An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 92
Birth and Fortune 0 0 0 0 3 9 24 278
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 10 435
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience 0 0 0 0 2 4 23 2,128
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 2 4 10 363
The Fertility Revolution 0 0 0 0 3 5 15 349
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 50
The Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 59
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 26 99 5,552


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American Population since 1940 0 1 2 38 1 2 6 196
Appendix A: Basic Data 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 15
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 1 1 1 28
Appendix for Chapter 2 0 0 0 13 1 2 4 66
Appendix for Chapter 3 0 0 0 13 0 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 1 1 2 23
Appendix for Chapter 7 0 0 0 9 2 2 3 29
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 6 53
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 23
Conclusions and Possible Implications 0 0 0 13 1 1 2 36
Critiquing the Paradox 0 0 0 3 2 2 6 19
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 29
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates 0 0 0 22 0 1 2 66
Does Money Make People Happy? 0 0 0 0 3 9 16 159
Dream on, Professor! 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17
Family Life and Happiness 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 30
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" 0 0 0 34 1 2 2 74
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 0 1 2 11 0 1 8 54
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness 0 0 3 44 3 5 11 114
Happiness or GDP? 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 61
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis 0 0 0 45 1 2 2 86
How Can I Increase My Happiness? 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 26
How Does Health Affect Happiness? 0 0 1 2 1 4 9 57
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 0 1 4 127 4 5 13 464
Introduction 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 9
Introduction and Summary 0 0 0 119 0 1 1 198
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" 0 0 0 42 2 5 12 196
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility 0 0 0 22 1 1 3 61
Measuring Happiness 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 72
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 1 2 2 67
References 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 6
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 36
The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 50 1 3 6 137
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience 0 0 0 47 1 1 2 73
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes 0 0 1 32 0 1 3 60
The Income Side: Some Theoretical Aspects 0 1 2 7 0 1 3 28
The Story of a Reluctant Economist 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 22
Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility 1 1 2 138 1 4 6 354
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 30
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? 0 0 0 1 3 4 8 54
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16
Total Chapters 1 5 20 945 42 86 179 3,367


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