WELL-BEING ACROSS AMERICA

This paper uses Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to study life satisfaction and mental health across the geography of the United States. The analysis draws on a sample of 1.3 million citizens. Initially we control for people's personal characteristics (though not income). There i...

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Volume:	93
Main Author:	Andrew J. Oswald Stephen Wu
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	CAMBRIDGE MIT Press 01.11.2011 The MIT Press MIT PRESS MIT Press Journals
published in:	The review of economics and statistics Vol. 93; no. 4; pp. 1118 - 1134
ORCID:	0000-0003-4640-0221
Data of publication:	20111101
ISSN:	0034-6535 1530-9142 1530-9142
EISSN:	1530-9142
Discipline:	Economics Statistics
Subjects:	Happiness Sample size Household income Correlations Mental health Wellbeing Native Americans Coefficients Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Unemployment Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods Forecasts and trends Gross domestic product United States economic conditions Psychiatric research United States SATISFACTION STATES U-SHAPE DISTRESS ECONOMICS QUALITY-OF-LIFE HEALTH HAPPINESS UNEMPLOYMENT BRITAIN
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2011 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS