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Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper tests whether there is a potential payoff to grandparenthood in terms of life satisfaction. Using the new nationwide survey for the UK, which consists of over 5,000 grandparents and 6,000 non-grandparents aged 40 and above, and a flexible multiple-index ordered probit model with...

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Linking Individuals and Societies

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...

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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for …

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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

happiness - bringing under a single theoretical umbrella diverse mechanisms together with their effects across disparate domains … distinctive identity and a distinctive magnitude of happiness. Thus, the theory enables systematic and parsimonious analysis of …

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Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

When a society overthrows a ruler – call the ruler Caesar – what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value...

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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

unification of the three sociobehavioral forces with identity and with happiness. …

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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

new unified theory, which also links the forces to identity and to happiness. Second, following the new unified theory …

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Happy in the Hood? The Impact of Residential Segregation on Self-Reported Happiness

Herbst, Chris M.; Lucio, Joanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

self-reported happiness. Using panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), we begin by … estimating ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions of happiness on a measure of MSA-level segregation, controlling for a rich … associated with a reduction in happiness among blacks. To deal more appropriately with the potential endogeneity of location …

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

significantly moderated by an increase in happiness for the person making the judgment. …

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