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“promoters of well-being.” The top five indicators for women are engaging in petty
trading, having a trustworthy pastor in their local churches, large family size, ability to go
to church regularly, and social interaction. The top 5 indicators for men are card playing,
being a member of a church committee, drinking palm wine together, listening to radios,
and farming. The authors conclude that different factors are important for well-being for
women and men. Although this paper does not take the standard approach, it does suggest
that men and women report different specific factors as important for their well-being,
but the themes of leisure and income-generating activities are important for both sexes.
There are also studies that investigate the differences in the impact of specific life
circumstances on life satisfaction of men and women. Using data for 28 OECD countries,
Stavrova, Schlösser, and Fetchenhauer (2011) confirm previous findings that women tend
to be less negatively affected by unemployment. The effect of marriage on happiness for
men and women is still an area of debate, but most studies have found that the benefits of
marriage are the same for women and men (Frey & Stutzer, 2002). Kroll (2010)
investigates the effects of different types of social capital on life satisfaction. He finds
that in the United Kingdom, informal socializing is more important for women than for
men, but that civic engagement is only associated with higher life satisfaction for men
and childless women; it has no impact on women who have children. Schoon, Hansson,
and Salmela-Aro (2005) investigate the effects of work and parenthood on women and
men in Estonia, Finland, and the UK. First, they find that women are happier than men in
all three countries. Second, married women in the UK and Finland who are employed
and have children are more satisfied with their lives than those who are employed but do
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Object Description
| Title | Essays on health and well-being |
| Author | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Author email | smith2@usc.edu; jackiesmith04@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Economics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-23 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 26 Apr. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-04-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Easterlin, Richard A. Ham, John C. |
| Advisor (committee member) | Melguizo, Tatiana |
| Abstract | This dissertation is comprised of three chapters that use microeconometric techniques to investigate the factors that affect people’s well-being. In the first two chapters, well-being is defined as life satisfaction or health satisfaction. The first chapter explores how the movement from socialism to capitalism affected the life satisfaction and health satisfaction of East Germans relative to West Germans after reunification. The second chapter examines whether women are happier, less happy, or equally happy as men in countries at various stages of development. The third chapter examines whether pollution affects the academic performance of school children; their academic performance and achievements will have important implications for their future well-being. |
| Keyword | happiness; well-being |
| Geographic subject | Germany |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1990/2010; 2002/2008 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3782 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Zweig-4500 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Zweig-4500.pdf |
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| Title | Page 73 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 64 “promoters of well-being.” The top five indicators for women are engaging in petty trading, having a trustworthy pastor in their local churches, large family size, ability to go to church regularly, and social interaction. The top 5 indicators for men are card playing, being a member of a church committee, drinking palm wine together, listening to radios, and farming. The authors conclude that different factors are important for well-being for women and men. Although this paper does not take the standard approach, it does suggest that men and women report different specific factors as important for their well-being, but the themes of leisure and income-generating activities are important for both sexes. There are also studies that investigate the differences in the impact of specific life circumstances on life satisfaction of men and women. Using data for 28 OECD countries, Stavrova, Schlösser, and Fetchenhauer (2011) confirm previous findings that women tend to be less negatively affected by unemployment. The effect of marriage on happiness for men and women is still an area of debate, but most studies have found that the benefits of marriage are the same for women and men (Frey & Stutzer, 2002). Kroll (2010) investigates the effects of different types of social capital on life satisfaction. He finds that in the United Kingdom, informal socializing is more important for women than for men, but that civic engagement is only associated with higher life satisfaction for men and childless women; it has no impact on women who have children. Schoon, Hansson, and Salmela-Aro (2005) investigate the effects of work and parenthood on women and men in Estonia, Finland, and the UK. First, they find that women are happier than men in all three countries. Second, married women in the UK and Finland who are employed and have children are more satisfied with their lives than those who are employed but do 64 |
