Women’s optimism, the gender happiness equaliser: a case of South Africa
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Keywords
Happiness gap; Gender; Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition; South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2020-02-24 (Economics of Happiness)
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