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Empirical analysis of life satisfaction in German Benedictine monasteries

Janotík, Tomáš - 2013

happiness research in economics. A dataset of 154 Benedictine nuns is analyzed. The main objective is to identify the most … important determinants of happiness of Benedictines and to empirically evaluate the hypothesis that they have very high …

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Benefit or burden? : Unraveling the effect of economic freedom on subjective well-being

Gehring, Kai - 2012

effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …

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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification : additional Insights on the pattern of convergence

Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...

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Do people seek to maximize their subjective well-being?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015

best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …

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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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Internet use and subjective well-being in China

Nie, Peng; Nimrod, Galit; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015

Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, we analyze the association between Internet use and various measures of subjective well-being (SWB) in a sample of 16- to 60- year-old Chinese. Our analysis shows that although intensive Internet use is significantly associated with lower...

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