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Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence that individuals who become disabled go on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation...
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happiness can be predicted rather closely from the mean satisfaction people report with each of four domains - finances, family … life, work, and health. Even though the domain satisfaction patterns typically differ from each other and from that for …
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Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence that individuals who become disabled go on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317532
institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295227
East Asia is undergoing a rapid demographic transition and "super" aging. As a result of steadily decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy, older people's proportion of the population and the old-age dependency ratio is rising across all countries in East Asia, particularly in the...
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decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174903
decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193738
attitudes to focus less on objective variables and more on subjective well-being (SWB). Studies investigating life satisfaction …
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The article investigates the relationship between life satisfaction and homeownership in Germany using, SOEP data from … of the dwelling and the neighborhood area, exert a significant effect on life satisfaction. Further, the results confirm … homeowners and renters. -- homeownership ; housing ; subjective well-being ; life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374388
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...
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