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The role of urban green space for human well-being

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Most people in Europe live in urban environments. For these people, urban green space is an important element of well-being, but it is often in short supply. We use self-reported information on life satisfaction and different individual green space measures to explore how urban green space...

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Approaches to well-being, use of psychology and paternalism in economics

Collewet, Marion - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

position: Scitovsky's Joyless Economy, happiness economics, and the constitutional approach to happiness in economics. It shows …

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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness

Opfinger, Matthias; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …

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The Impact of Climate on Life Satisfaction

Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values Survey. Climate is described in terms of ‘degree-months’ calculated using an optimally-selected base temperature of 65°F (18.3°C). Our results suggest that countries with...

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Well-being effects of a major negative externality: The case of Fukushima

Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz; Narita, Daiju; Okubo, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Following a major earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan, a tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three reactors in Fukushima, causing a major nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. Based on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach we use panel data for 5,979 individuals...

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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Diversification into non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be broadly classified as either survival-led or opportunity-led. The existence of these two types of non-agricultural activities implies a U-shaped relationship between the share of income derived from non-agricultural...

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Thiele, Rainer; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally representative sample of rural households from Zambia. To minimize selection bias that may arise because AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of...

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The BIP trilogy (bipolarization, inequality and polarization): One saga but three different stories

Deutsch, Joseph; Fusco, Alessio; Silber, Jacques - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and polarization. It then shows that a close look at the impact of...

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How close is your government to its people? Worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization

Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper is intended to provide an assessment of the impact of the silent revolution (decentralization reforms) of the last three decades on moving governments closer to people to establish fair, accountable, incorruptible and responsive governance. To accomplish this, a unique data set is...

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Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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