Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant … but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships …, Hungary and the Netherlands – to provide a reconsideration of the impact of economic wellbeing on happiness. The main …

indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to … translate economic growth into non-monetary wellbeing. We take into consideration that there is a feedback effect from monetary … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish …

on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …

We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption …

. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are … commuting choice using data on subjective well-being. People show substantial adaptation to a higher labor income but not to …

joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … measures of poverty show that parents are highly compensated by the scale economies due to joint consumption. …

Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view … makes it impossible to detect and understand sub-optimal consumption decisions, due to problems of self-control and the … sub-optimal and is therefore reducing a person’s well-being. We discuss recent evidence on smoking and eating habits, TV …