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Achieving innovation in central government organisations

Dunleavy, Patrick; Margetts, Helen; Bastow, Simon; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The role of innovations in improving government productivity and the effectiveness of services has previously been … administrative innovations in central government are diverse, but most involve improving performance management, introducing new IT … projects or web services, as well as some physical technology changes. Many recent projects focus on joining up government and …

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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...

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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...

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Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey

Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We look for evidence of adaptation in wellbeing to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar to those in...

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What can life satisfaction data tell us about discrimination against sexual minorities? A structural equation model for Australia and the United Kingdom

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wooden, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys that provide nationally representative samples for two different countries – Australia (the...

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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development...

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...

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Comparing willingness-to-pay and subjective well-being in the context of non-market goods

Dolan, Paul; Metcalf, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

In order to value non-market goods, economists estimate individuals’ willingness to pay (WTP) for these goods using revealed or stated preference methods. We compare these conventional approaches with subjective well-being (SWB), which is based on individuals’ ratings of their happiness or...

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