Also, we see the much lower than historically normal dividend as a negative factor in our analysis, and a return to more normal levels would be greeted positively by our methodology.

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As the regression analysis in Table 2 demonstrated, a rising sense of free choice is by far the most powerful factor driving rising SWB.

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