Author Page for John F. Helliwell

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Education and Social Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w7121

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jun 1999 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell and Robert D. Putnam

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Empirical Linkages between Democracy and Economic Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w4066

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Social Capital, Trust, and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth

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Social Capital, Trust, and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7707

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Jul 2016

Kirk Hamilton, John F. Helliwell and Michael Woolcock

World Bank, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

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Social Capital, Trust and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth

NBER Working Paper No. w22556

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2023

Kirk Hamilton, John F. Helliwell and Michael Woolcock

World Bank, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

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How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace

NBER Working Paper No. w11759

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?

NBER Working Paper No. w11807

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia

NBER Working Paper No. w5470

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Feb 1997 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Happiness at Different Ages: The Social Context Matters

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Happiness at Different Ages: The Social Context Matters

KDI School of Pub Policy & Management Paper No. 19-06

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 10 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2019

John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Max B. Norton and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - Department of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC) and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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Happiness at Different Ages: The Social Context Matters

NBER Working Paper No. w25121

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 08 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2023

John F. Helliwell, Max Norton, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Alberta - Department of Economics and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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How's Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w9065

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Jul 2002 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

NBER Working Paper No. w26840

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 04 May 2023

John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of Alberta and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Oct 2020

John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of Alberta and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction Among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities

NBER Working Paper No. w24592

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 May 2018 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2022

John F. Helliwell, Hugh Shiplett and Christopher Barrington-Leigh

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics and McGill University - Institute for Health and Social Policy

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How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w11988

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2022

John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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Trust and Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w15911

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2023

John F. Helliwell and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness

NBER Working Paper No. w20794

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2023

Shawn Grover and John F. Helliwell

Government of Canada - Department of Finance Canada and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

NBER Working Paper No. w16415

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 10 May 2023

Lara B. Aknin, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire E. Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton

University of British Columbia, McGill University - Institute for Health and Social Policy, University of British Columbia - Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - Centre for Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP), Mbarara University of Science and Technology - Educational Foundations and Psychology, Makerere University, University of Groningen - Department of Social and Organizational Psychology and Harvard Business School - Marketing Unit

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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace

NBER Working Paper No. w14589

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2022

John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w15887

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 31 May 2023

John F. Helliwell and Christopher Barrington-Leigh

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and McGill University - Institute for Health and Social Policy

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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w14720

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2022

John F. Helliwell, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Anthony Harris and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, McGill University - Institute for Health and Social Policy, University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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National Borders, Trade and Migration

NBER Working Paper No. w6027

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces

NBER Working Paper No. w5863

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Macroeconomic Convergence: International Transmission of Growth and Technical Progress

NBER Working Paper No. w3264

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell and Alan Chung

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w22450

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 06 May 2023

John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - Department of Economics and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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Well-Being and Social Capital: Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

NBER Working Paper No. w10896

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development

NBER Working Paper No. w14507

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Do National Borders Matter for Quebec's Trade?

NBER Working Paper No. w5215

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w23761

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022

John F. Helliwell, Lara B. Aknin, Hugh Shiplett, Haifang Huang and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics, University of Alberta - Department of Economics and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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How Much is Social Capital Worth?

NBER Working Paper No. w16025

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2023

John F. Helliwell and Christopher Barrington-Leigh

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and McGill University - Institute for Health and Social Policy

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Fiscal Policy and the External Deficit: Siblings, But Not Twins

NBER Working Paper No. w3313

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 May 2004 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

NBER Working Paper No. w28095

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2023

John F. Helliwell, David Gyarmati, Craig Joyce and Heather Orpana

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), Government of Canada - Department of Finance Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada

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New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment: Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 3.3 Million Americans

NBER Working Paper No. w16829

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2023

John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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Demographic Changes and International Factor Mobility

NBER Working Paper No. w10945

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Empirical Studies of Macroeconomic Interdependence

NBER Working Paper No. w1021

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 12 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2022

John F. Helliwell and Tim Padmore

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training (CHET)

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Comparing Capital Mobility Across Provincial and National Borders

NBER Working Paper No. w6624

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022

John F. Helliwell and Ross McKitrick

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Guelph - Department of Economics

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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality

NBER Working Paper No. w21900

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Jan 2016

Leonard Goff, John F. Helliwell and Guy Mayraz

Columbia University, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

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A Synthesis of Keynesian, Monetary, and Portfolio Approaches to Flexibleexchange Rates

NBER Working Paper No. w0949

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2022

Thorvaldur Gylfason and John F. Helliwell

University of Iceland - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

NBER Working Paper No. w14593

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022

Christopher Barrington-Leigh and John F. Helliwell

McGill University - Institute for Health and Social Policy and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Aggregate Output with Operating Rates and Inventories as Buffers Betweenvariable Final Demand and Quasi-Fixed Factors

NBER Working Paper No. w1623

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell and Alan Chung

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Convergence and Growth Linkages between North and South

NBER Working Paper No. w3948

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2022

Alan Chung and John F. Helliwell

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Stagflation and Productivity Decline in Canada, 1974-1982

NBER Working Paper No. w1185

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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International Growth Linkages: Evidence from Asia and the OECD

NBER Working Paper No. w4245

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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The Effects of Fiscal Policy on International Imbalances: Japan and the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w2650

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w17180

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2022

John F. Helliwell and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia

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Trade and Technical Progress

NBER Working Paper No. w4226

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Macroeconomic Implications of Alternative Exchange Rate Models

NBER Working Paper No. w0904

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell and Paul M. Boothe

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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Well-Being Analysis Favours a Virus-Elimination Strategy for Covid-19

NBER Working Paper No. w29092

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2023

John F. Helliwell, Max B. Norton, Shun Wang, Lara Aknin and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC), KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Simon Fraser University (SFU) and University of Alberta

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International Comparison of the Sources of Productivity Slowdown 1973 1982

NBER Working Paper No. w1465

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 31 May 2004 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2023

John F. Helliwell, Peter Sturm and Gerard Salou

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO) and Independent

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Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real and On-Line Friends

NBER Working Paper No. w18690

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2023

John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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Supply-Side Macroeconomics

NBER Working Paper No. w1995

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2022

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Migration as a Test of the Happiness Set Point Hypothesis: Evidence from Immigration to Canada

NBER Working Paper No. w22601

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023

John F. Helliwell, Aneta Bonikowska and Hugh Shiplett

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, Statistics Canada and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics

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Empirical Linkages between Good Government and National Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w20686

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023

John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shawn Grover and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - Department of Economics, Government of Canada - Department of Finance Canada and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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Multicountry Modeling of Financial Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w2736

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2022

Jon Cockerline, John F. Helliwell and Robert Lafrance

affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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The Emotional Consequences of Donation Opportunities

NBER Working Paper No. w20696

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2023

Lara B. Aknin, Guy Mayraz and John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w19855

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022

John F. Helliwell, Shun Wang and Jinwen Xu

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, KDI School of Public Policy and Management and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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How Was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and Other Emotions for Us Workers

NBER Working Paper No. w21374

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 28 May 2023

John F. Helliwell and Shun Wang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and KDI School of Public Policy and Management

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Understanding and Improving the Social Context of Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w18486

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2023

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies

NBER Working Paper No. w26529

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2023

John F. Helliwell

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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How’s the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2010

Posted: 30 Jun 2010

John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and University of Alberta - Department of Economics

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University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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