Collection
Wellbeing and Happiness
- Submission status
- Open
- Open for submission from
- 07 February 2024
- Submission deadline
- Ongoing
Deals with the causes, consequences, and measurement of (subjective) well-being, including work well-being, self-evaluations, such as insecurity and loneliness, and health assessments.
Editors: Editor-in Chief and Editors of Journal of Population Economics, see Editorial Board
A particular role take:
Editor: Milena Nikolova, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Associate Editors: Andrew Clark, Paris School of Economics, France; Anthony Lepinteur, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Literature: Section "Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness" (Section Editor Milena Nikolova) of Springer Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. https://glabor.org/welfare-well-being-happiness/
JOPE Collections are a set of published papers on issues of significant relevance for the journal. Authors are continuously invited to submit their related work for evaluation stating their specific interest to contribute in the submission cover letter. JOPE Editors will treat those submissions with particular interest and speedy handling. Articles will be immediately published after final acceptance.
Articles (35 in this collection)
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Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health
Authors
- Barış K. Yörük
- Yiran Han
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 09 April 2024
- Article: 42
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Time use and happiness: US evidence across three decades
Authors
- Jeehoon Han
- Caspar Kaiser
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 09 February 2024
- Article: 15
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The female happiness paradox
Authors
- David G. Blanchflower
- Alex Bryson
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 09 February 2024
- Article: 16
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A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States
Authors
- Enghin Atalay
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 05 February 2024
- Article: 12
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Teleworking and life satisfaction during COVID-19: the importance of family structure
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Claudia Senik
- Andrew E. Clark
- Carsten Schröder
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 02 February 2024
- Article: 8
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I won’t make the same mistake again: burnout history and job preferences
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Philippe Sterkens
- Stijn Baert
- Eva Derous
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 23 January 2024
- Article: 2
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Double-edged sword: persistent effects of Communist regime affiliations on well-being and preferences
Authors
- Vladimir Otrachshenko
- Milena Nikolova
- Olga Popova
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 09 January 2023
- Pages: 1139 - 1185
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The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China
Authors
- Yue Hua
- Yun Qiu
- Xiaoqing Tan
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 31 December 2022
- Pages: 1293 - 1332
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Native Americans’ experience of chronic distress in the USA
Authors
- David G. Blanchflower
- Donn. L. Feir
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 18 July 2022
- Pages: 885 - 909
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Culture and mental health resilience in times of COVID-19
Authors
- Annie Tubadji
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 19 May 2021
- Pages: 1219 - 1259
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Increasing longevity and life satisfaction: is there a catch to living longer?
Authors
- Janina Nemitz
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 03 May 2021
- Pages: 557 - 589
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Consequences of war: Japan’s demographic transition and the marriage market
Authors
- Kota Ogasawara
- Mizuki Komura
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 18 April 2021
- Pages: 1037 - 1069
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Children, unhappiness and family finances
Authors
- David G. Blanchflower
- Andrew E. Clark
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 29 September 2020
- Pages: 625 - 653
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Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries
Authors
- David G. Blanchflower
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 09 September 2020
- Pages: 575 - 624
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Quasi-experimental evidence for the causal link between fertility and subjective well-being
Authors
- Jan Priebe
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 07 March 2020
- Pages: 839 - 882
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Government Transfers, Work, and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension
Authors
- Louise Grogan
- Fraser Summerfield
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 03 January 2019
- Pages: 1247 - 1292
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Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind
Authors
- Artjoms Ivlevs
- Milena Nikolova
- Carol Graham
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 09 August 2018
- Pages: 113 - 151
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Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and premature mortality
Authors
- Carol Graham
- Sergio Pinto
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 28 March 2018
- Pages: 665 - 733
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Your spouse is fired! How much do you care?
Authors
- Milena Nikolova
- Sinem H. Ayhan
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 24 March 2018
- Pages: 799 - 844
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Does income moderate the satisfaction of becoming a parent? In Germany it does and depends on education
Authors
- Marco Le Moglie
- Letizia Mencarini
- Chiara Rapallini
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 05 March 2018
- Pages: 915 - 952
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents: evidence from US counties
Authors
- Masanori Kuroki
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 06 July 2017
- Pages: 107 - 133
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Ethnic diversity and well-being
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Alpaslan Akay
- Amelie Constant
- Martin Guzi
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 19 September 2016
- Pages: 265 - 306
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Happiness, stress, and age: how the U curve varies across people and places
Authors
- Carol Graham
- Julia Ruiz Pozuelo
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 17 September 2016
- Pages: 225 - 264
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Transforming lives: the impact of compulsory schooling on hope and happiness
Authors
- Bahadır Dursun
- Resul Cesur
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 12 April 2016
- Pages: 911 - 956
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How natural disasters can affect environmental concerns, risk aversion, and even politics: evidence from Fukushima and three European countries
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Jan Goebel
- Christian Krekel
- Nicolas R. Ziebarth
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 01 July 2015
- Pages: 1137 - 1180
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Life satisfaction of immigrants: does cultural assimilation matter?
Authors
- Viola Angelini
- Laura Casi
- Luca Corazzini
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 17 March 2015
- Pages: 817 - 844
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The impact of early-life economic conditionson cause-specific mortality during adulthood
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Gary Y. C. Yeung
- Gerard J. van den Berg
- France R. M. Portrait
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 03 December 2013
- Pages: 895 - 919
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Part-time jobs: what women want?
Authors
- Alison L. Booth
- Jan C. van Ours
- Content type: Original Paper
- Open Access
- Published: 16 May 2012
- Pages: 263 - 283
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Welfare reform and the subjective well-being of single mothers
Authors
- Chris M. Herbst
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 02 March 2012
- Pages: 203 - 238
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Happiness and altruism within the extended family
Authors
- Johannes Schwarze
- Rainer Winkelmann
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 29 June 2010
- Pages: 1033 - 1051
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If happiness is relative, against whom do we compare ourselves? Implications for labour supply
Authors
- Eduardo Pérez-Asenjo
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 15 May 2010
- Pages: 1411 - 1442
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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being
Authors
- Rafael Lalive
- Alois Stutzer
- Content type: Orignial Paper
- Published: 18 June 2009
- Pages: 933 - 962
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Happiness functions with preference interdependence and heterogeneity: the case of altruism within the family
Authors
- Adrian Bruhin
- Rainer Winkelmann
- Content type: Original Paper
- Published: 01 August 2008
- Pages: 1063 - 1080
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Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods
Authors
- Michael A. Shields
- Stephen Wheatley Price
- Mark Wooden
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 12 April 2007
- Pages: 421 - 443