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    Economic Development and Adolescent Wellbeing in 139 Countries

    There is a positive association between the level of economic development and national levels of overall life satisfaction (OLS) in the adult population, with decreasing marginal returns. However, research sho...

    Jose Marquez, Ferran Casas, Laura Taylor, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve in Child Indicators Research (2024)

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    Happiness predicts compliance with preventive health behaviours during Covid-19 lockdowns

    To combat the public health crisis of Covid-19, governments and public health officials have been asking individuals to substantially change their behaviours for prolonged periods of time. Are happier people m...

    Christian Krekel, Sarah Swanke, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    The SDGs and human well-being: a global analysis of synergies, trade-offs, and regional differences

    This paper explores the empirical links between achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and subjective well-being. Globally, we find that in terms of well-being, there are increasing marginal return...

    Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Jeffrey D. Sachs in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    What Makes for a Good Job? Evidence Using Subjective Wellbeing Data

    We study what makes for a good job, by looking at which workplace characteristics are conducive or detrimental to job satisfaction. Using data from 37 countries around the world in the 2015 Work Orientations m...

    Christian Krekel, George Ward, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve in The Economics of Happiness (2019)

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    Correction: Corrigendum: Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Nat. Genet. 48, 624–633 (2016); published online 18 April 2016; corrected after print 27 June 2016; corrected after print 29 August 2016 In the version of this article initially published, one of the affiliati...

    Aysu Okbay, Bart M L Baselmans, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Patrick Turley in Nature Genetics (2016)

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    Correction: Corrigendum: Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Nat. Genet. 48, 624–633 (2016); published online 18 April 2016; corrected after print 27 June 2016 In the version of this article initially published, the following co-authors and their affiliations were incor...

    Aysu Okbay, Bart M L Baselmans, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Patrick Turley in Nature Genetics (2016)

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    Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Daniel Benjamin, Meike Bartels, Philipp Koellinger and colleagues report a genome-wide association meta-analysis of subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism. The study leverages a large sampl...

    Aysu Okbay, Bart M L Baselmans, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Patrick Turley in Nature Genetics (2016)

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    Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    A genome-wide association study in 293,723 individuals identifies 74 genetic variants associated with educational attainment, which, although only explaining a small proportion of the variation in educational ...

    Aysu Okbay, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Mark Alan Fontana, James J. Lee, Tune H. Pers in Nature (2016)

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    Same-Sex Sexual Attraction Does Not Spread in Adolescent Social Networks

    Peers have a powerful effect on adolescents’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Here, we examine the role of social networks in the spread of attitudes towards sexuality using data from the National Longitudin...

    Tiffany A. Brakefield, Sara C. Mednick, Helen W. Wilson in Archives of Sexual Behavior (2014)