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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research
Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
happiness surveys to study well being in its various dimensions, ranging from well being within persons, to the determinants of … poor to make choices or to take certain actions. Happiness surveys are a means to assess the well being of individuals who … quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587041
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Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? : laboratory evidence from trust and gift exchange games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2013
significantly moderated by an increase in happiness for the person making the judgment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771743
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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016
U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526744
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Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives : competing channels in the relationship between others' income, health, and happiness
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Graham, Carol - 2016
We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income hypothesis (RIH) and altruism). The relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476321
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Quantifying the psychological costs of unemployment : the role of permanent income
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2007
Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630069
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The shadow prices of voluntary caregiving : using panel data of well-being to estimate the cost of informal care
McDonald, Rebecca; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2018
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865578
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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham's happiness for all?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770416
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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users
Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772750
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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users
Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017
This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764676
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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham' s Happiness for all?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783556