Ebshoy Mikhaeil

Biographic Data

ID6312564
NAMEEbshoy Mikhaeil
GIVEN NAMESEbshoy
FAMILY NAMEMikhaeil
SIGNATUREMIKHAEIL E
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Do Unpredictable and Unstable Work Hours Reduce Subjective Wellbeing

    Open AccessLonnie Golden, Rubia R Valente et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2026

    We empirically explore how key dimensions of work hours and schedules (i.e., volatility, short advance notice, and irregular shift times) affect workers’ self-reported subjective wellbeing (SWB). Our analysis controls for the number of weekly hours, occupation, demographics, family income, and health. We use data from the 2016 U.S. General Social Survey, containing the Work Orientations IV module of the International Social Survey Program. The fi…

  • Happy Colombia, unhappy Bogota (urban-rural happiness gradient in Colombia)

    Open AccessAdam Okulicz-Kozaryn, Lina Maria Martínez Quintero et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2026

    We use the 1998, 2012, and 2018 Colombian World Values Survey • The effect size of the happiness urban penalty is weak -.25 for cities > 500k • The effect size of the happiness urban penalty is large -.4 to -.9 for Bogota. The exploration of life satisfaction across urban-rural gradients has become increasingly important in understanding the nuanced relationship between well-being and geographical settings. Yet many Latin American countries have …

  • Happiness is In The Air if It Grows Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones

    Open AccessAdam Okulicz-Kozaryn, Brian K Everett et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Review2024References: 10

    We study the effect of population change on subjective wellbeing (SWB) using over 100,000 observations from behavioral risk factor surveillance system representative of 392 US counties. SWB correlates higher with population change (0.4) than with county-level crime (-0.25) and income (0.2). The relative ecological strong effect size holds in regressions controlling for person-level and county-level predictors of SWB-population change is one of th…

  • Subjective well-being and urbanization in Egypt

    Open AccessEbshoy Mikhaeil, Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn et al.ARTICLECities2024Cited by: 1References: 52

    World Values Survey data is used to test the association between urbanization, operationalized as population size, and subjective well-being, operationalized as life satisfaction, in the case of Egypt. Regression results show that the smallest settlements have the highest positive effect on subjective well-being compared to the large urban centers. These results are persistent even after controlling for an extensive set of socio-demographic varia…