John F Helliwell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 279718 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John F Helliwell |
| NOMBRES | John F |
| APELLIDO | Helliwell |
| FIRMA | HELLIWELL J F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7963-6420 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 422 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
A national cohort study of community belonging and its influence on premature mortality
BACKGROUND: Community belonging, an important constituent of subjective well-being, is an important target for improving population health. Ageing involves transitioning across different social conditions thus, community belonging on health may vary across the life course. Using a nationally representative cohort, this study estimates the life stage-specific impact of community belonging on premature mortality. METHODS: Six cycles of the Canadian…
Are Real-World Prosociality Programs Associated with Greater Psychological Well-Being in Primary School-Aged Children
Quality education can build a sustainable, happier world, but what experiences support student well-being? Numerous laboratory studies suggest that prosocial behavior predicts greater psychological well-being. However, relatively little work has examined whether real-world prosociality programs are associated with greater well-being in primary school-aged children (aged 5-12). In Study 1, we surveyed 24/25 students who completed their 6th Grade c…
Policy stringency and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: To date, public health policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have been evaluated on the basis of their ability to reduce transmission and minimise economic harm. We aimed to assess the association between COVID-19 policy restrictions and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: In this longitudinal analysis, we combined daily policy stringency data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker with psych…
Mental Health During the First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has infected millions of people and upended the lives of most humans on the planet. Researchers from across the psychological sciences have sought to document and investigate the impact of COVID-19 in myriad ways, causing an explosion of research that is broad in scope, varied in methods, and challenging to consolidate. Because policy and practice aimed at helping people live healthier and happier lives requires insight from robust patte…
Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being
Measures of well-being have proliferated over the past decades. Very little guidance has been available as to which measures to use in what contexts. This paper provides a series of recommendations, based on the present state of knowledge and the existing measures available, of what measures might be preferred in which contexts. The recommendations came out of an interdisciplinary workshop on the measurement of well-being. The recommendations are…
Relationship between sense of community belonging and self-rated health across life stages
This study contributed to the evidence base supporting life stage differences in the relationship between community belonging and self-perceived health. This is a starting point to identifying how age-graded differences in unmet social needs relate to population health interventions
Three questions about happiness
The paper by Frijters, Clark, Krekel and Layard makes a strong historical case for treating happiness as a primary measure of human welfare. They argue that it is now time to revamp the science of policy-making to re-establish this central tradition, building on recent progress in measuring and understanding subjective wellbeing. I agree with them. There are three key questions raised in or by their presentation that need further evidence. I shal…
Expanding the social science of happiness
What's Special About Happiness as a Social Indicator
Social Capital, Trust, and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth
This chapter combines theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. This is used to argue, given the existing literature on social capital, that the welfare returns to investing in trust could be substantial. Social trust data from 132 nations covered by the Gallup World Poll are used to present a range of estimates of social trust’s wealth-equivalent values. The…
Social Capital, Trust, and Well-being in the Evaluation of Wealth
This paper combines theory with data \n from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of \n the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. The \n analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from \n the literature on social capital, that the welfare returns \n to investing in trust could be substantial. Using data from \n 132 nations covered by the Gallup World Poll, the paper \n presents a range of estimates of the we…
How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries
Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Crisis
Weekends and Subjective Well-Being
An Assessment of Life Satisfaction Responses on Recent Statistics Canada Surveys
Prosocial spending and well-being
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined and showed that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used exper…
Viewpoint
Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well‐being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. We describe the main measures of subjective well‐being (SWB) and provide examples of policy‐relevant research findings, including new accountings of the differences in individual‐level SWB ass…
International differences in well-being
How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace
The authors first investigate how income and job characteristics affect life satisfaction, then estimate compensating differentials for non-financial job characteristics. To address potential problems with using life satisfaction data as dependent variables, they draw on three Canadian surveys (conducted in the years 2002-2003) with different samples and questions, and they use individual personality measures, various robustness checks, and cross…
How’s the Job? Are Trust and Social Capital Neglected Workplace Investments?
Well-Being for Public Policy
The case is made for implementing national accounts of well-being to help policy makers and individuals make better decisions. Well-being is defined as people's evaluations of their lives, including concepts such as life satisfaction and happiness, and is similar to the concept of “utility” in economics. Measures of well-being in organizations, states, and nations can provide people with useful information. Importantly, accounts of well-being can…
How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being
This article employs World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of utility, and uses them to evaluate alternative features and forms of government in large international samples. Life satisfaction is found to be more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per capita incomes, in simple correlations and more fully specified models explaining international di…
Globalization and Well-Being
Researchers and policy-makers are taking a new look at public policies to find broader grounds for assessing their economic and social impacts on individuals, families, communities, and nations. This book introduces this new research on social capital and well-being and applies it to key issues facing individuals and governments in the age of globalization. John Helliwell first looks at the latest evidence about the extent to which globalization …
Education and Social Capital
Well-Being and Social Capital
This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim's (1897) findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being The results show that more social capital and higher levels of trust are associated with lower national suicide rates, just as they are associated with higher levels of subjective well-being. Furthermore, there i…
Well‐Being, Social Capital and Public Policy
This article summarises recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being beyond those flowing through economic channels. Cross-national samples (supported by parallel analysis of suicide data) show large well-being effects f…
Empirical Linkages Between Democracy and Economic Growth
Using cross-sectional and pooled data for up to 125 countries over the period from 1960 to 1985, this article evaluates the two-way linkages between democracy and economic growth. The effects of income on democracy are found to be robust and positive. The effects of several measures of democracy and personal freedoms on growth are assessed in a comparative growth framework in which growth of GDP per adult depends negatively on initial income leve…
How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being
This article employs World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of utility, and uses them to evaluate alternative features and forms of government in large international samples. Life satisfaction is found to be more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per capita incomes, in simple correlations and more fully specified models explaining international di…
Prosocial spending and well-being
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined and showed that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used exper…
Well-Being and Social Capital
This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim's (1897) findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being The results show that more social capital and higher levels of trust are associated with lower national suicide rates, just as they are associated with higher levels of subjective well-being. Furthermore, there i…
How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries
Weekends and Subjective Well-Being
How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace
The authors first investigate how income and job characteristics affect life satisfaction, then estimate compensating differentials for non-financial job characteristics. To address potential problems with using life satisfaction data as dependent variables, they draw on three Canadian surveys (conducted in the years 2002-2003) with different samples and questions, and they use individual personality measures, various robustness checks, and cross…
Expanding the social science of happiness
Globalization and Well-Being
GLOBALIZATION AND WELL-BEING John F. Helliwell Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. 104pp, $40.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7748-0992-2), $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-7748-0993-0)One of Margaret Thatchers claims to fame was her relentless popularization of the TINA (there is no alternative) argument that the inevitable march of global market forces had made drastic changes to the fabric of the UK inescapable. In the Canadian context, her present day acolytes often claim that…
What's Special About Happiness as a Social Indicator
An Assessment of Life Satisfaction Responses on Recent Statistics Canada Surveys
The National Energy Conflict
The National Energy Program has become the focal point of the federal-provincial conflict over energy pricing and revenue sharing. The paper uses a regionally-based model of the Canadian energy system to calculate the effects of the NEP on revenue distribution and on net oil imports. The budget plus the Alberta production cutbacks is shown to be inferior to the budget, especially for Albertans, and much inferior to a compromise that raises oil pr…
A Synthesis of Monetary and Keynesian Approaches to Short-Run Balance-of- Payments Theory
Resolving the Energy Conflict
John F. Helliwell, Robert N. McRae, Resolving the Energy Conflict: From the National Energy Program to the Energy Agreements, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1982), pp. 14-23
The Western Accord and Lower World Oil Prices
John F. Helliwell, Mary E. MacGregor, Robert N. McRae, Andre Plourde, The Western Accord and Lower World Oil Prices, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 341-355
The National Energy Program Meets Falling World Oil Prices
The Stagflationary Effects of Higher Energy Prices in an Open Economy
John F. Helliwell, The Stagflationary Effects of Higher Energy Prices in an Open Economy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 7, Supplement: The Challenge of Inflation and Unemployment / Le defi de l'inflation et du chomage (Apr., 1981), pp. 155-164
Assessing the Dynamic Efficiency of Automatic Stabilizers
The dynamic efficiency of selected stabilizers was measured by simulating three-year world activity and price cycles in a medium-size non-linear model of the Canadian economy (RDX1) and computing the proportion of variance (around control values) eliminated by the operation of the stabilizer(s). Such measures, calculated for several target variables, were compared at different levels of capacity utilization for both cyclical and sustained shocks.…
Econometric Analysis of Policy Choices for an Open Economy
John F. Helliwell, Lawrence H. Officer, Harold T. Shapiro, Ian A. Stewart, Econometric Analysis of Policy Choices for an Open Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 1969), pp. 383-398
Public Policies and Private Investment
Journal Article J. F. Hellwell. Public Policies and Private Investment Get access Public Policies and Private Investment. By J. F. Hellwell. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Pp. xiii + 238. 50s.) G. Whittington G. Whittington Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 79, Issue 314, 1 June 1969, Pages 368–370, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230177 Publ…
Assessing the Dynamic Efficiency of Automatic Stabilizers
The dynamic efficiency of selected stabilizers was measured by simulating three-year world activity and price cycles in a medium-size non-linear model of the Canadian economy (RDX1) and computing the proportion of variance (around control values) eliminated by the operation of the stabilizer(s). Such measures, calculated for several target variables, were compared at different levels of capacity utilization for both cyclical and sustained shocks.…
Government Sector Equations for Macroeconomic Models
Equations across the Border
Extractive Resources in the World Economy
Mineral Resources in the New International Order
The Economic Council Annual Review / Exposé annuel du Conseil économique du Canada
John F. Helliwell, The Economic Council Annual Review / Exposé annuel du Conseil économique du Canada: Economic Targets and Performance, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), pp. 230-235
The National Energy Board's 1974-1975 Natural Gas Supply Hearings
In early 1974, the National Energy Board announced hearings 'to Determine the Supply and Deliverability of Canadian Natural Gas in Relation to Reasonably Foreseeable Requirements for Use in Canada and Potential for Export.' Written submissions were requested by September I, 1974, and hearings were later set for Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Quebec City. The National Energy Board's report on this subject, expected in mid-1975,…
The Political Economy of Northern Development, by K.J. Rea
Arctic Pipelines in the Context of Canadian Energy Requirements
Energy in Canada
Essay| November 01 1980 Energy in Canada John F. Helliwell John F. Helliwell Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia John Helliwell has taught economics at the University of British Columbia since 1967, and has undertaken economic modeling of national energy economics and international linkages in Canada and several other countries. He wrote “Mineral Resources in the New International Order” for Current History, July/August, 1975, …
A Synthesis of Monetary and Keynesian Approaches to Short-Run Balance-of- Payments Theory
The National Energy Conflict
The National Energy Program has become the focal point of the federal-provincial conflict over energy pricing and revenue sharing. The paper uses a regionally-based model of the Canadian energy system to calculate the effects of the NEP on revenue distribution and on net oil imports. The budget plus the Alberta production cutbacks is shown to be inferior to the budget, especially for Albertans, and much inferior to a compromise that raises oil pr…
The Stagflationary Effects of Higher Energy Prices in an Open Economy
John F. Helliwell, The Stagflationary Effects of Higher Energy Prices in an Open Economy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 7, Supplement: The Challenge of Inflation and Unemployment / Le defi de l'inflation et du chomage (Apr., 1981), pp. 155-164
Resolving the Energy Conflict
John F. Helliwell, Robert N. McRae, Resolving the Energy Conflict: From the National Energy Program to the Energy Agreements, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1982), pp. 14-23
The National Energy Program Meets Falling World Oil Prices
A Synthesis of Keynesian, Monetary, and Portfolio Approaches to Flexible Exchange Rates
Journal Article A Synthesis of Keynesian, Monetary, and Portfolio Approaches to Flexible Exchange Rates Get access Thorvaldur Gulfason, Thorvaldur Gulfason University of Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John F. Helliwell John F. Helliwell University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 372, 1 December 19…
Energy Policy and Industry Activity
Energy Deregulation and Uncertain World Oil Prices
John F. Helliwell, Mary E. MacGregor, Robert N. McRae, Andre Plourde, Energy Deregulation and Uncertain World Oil Prices: What Are the Connections?, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 11, Supplement: Western Canadian Economic Development: Energy Policy and Alternative Strategies / Le developpement economique de l'ouest du Canada: Politiques energetiques et alternatives strategiques (Jul., 1985), pp. 479-491
The Western Accord and Lower World Oil Prices
John F. Helliwell, Mary E. MacGregor, Robert N. McRae, Andre Plourde, The Western Accord and Lower World Oil Prices, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 341-355
International Trade and Exchange Rates in the Late Eighties
Journal Article International Trade and Exchange Rates in the Late Eighties Get access International Trade and Exchange Rates in the Late Eighties. Edited by THEO PEETERS, PETER PRAET and PAUL REDING. (Amsterdam & New York: North-Holland, 1985. Pp. xii + 418. USS 74, DM. 200 hardback.) John Helliwell John Helliwell University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume …
From Now Till Then
John F. Helliwell, From Now Till Then: Globalization and Economic Co-operation, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 15, Supplement: Macroeconomic Co-ordination and the Summit Le Sommet / Ententes sur les politiques macro-economiques (Feb., 1989), pp. S71-S77
Oil and Gas in Canada
Empirical Linkages Between Democracy and Economic Growth
Using cross-sectional and pooled data for up to 125 countries over the period from 1960 to 1985, this article evaluates the two-way linkages between democracy and economic growth. The effects of income on democracy are found to be robust and positive. The effects of several measures of democracy and personal freedoms on growth are assessed in a comparative growth framework in which growth of GDP per adult depends negatively on initial income leve…
Economics (34 obras) · Political science (25 obras) · Psychology (24 obras) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (19 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Business (14 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (13 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Medicine (11 obras)