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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071089
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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
based on individuals’ ratings of their happiness or life satisfaction rather than on their preferences. In the context of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884533
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One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data
Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual’s previous experience of deprivation or … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126358
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Does relative income matter? Are the critics right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
level of life-satisfaction: income comparisons emerge as much the more important. 3) When in our U.S. analysis we introduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071479
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Is happiness a predictor of election results?
Ward, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Is it in politicians’ interest to focus policy on subjective well-being (SWB)? Many governments and international organisations have recently begun to measure progress at least partly in terms of the population’s SWB or “happiness”. This paper investigates the extent to which citizens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266092
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The future of the German industrial relations model
Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
The paper examines recent evidence on the erosion of the German industrial relations model. Although its coverage has declined, much of this has occurred in smaller and newer establishments, and compared with Britain, it has remained solid in the areas of Germany's traditional industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266096
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Happy talk: mode of administration effects on subjective well-being
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Research on the measurement of subjective well-being (SWB) has escalated in recent years. This study contributes to the literature by examining how SWB reports differ by mode of survey administration. Using data from the 2011 Annual Population Survey in the UK, we find that individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745178
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Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance
Aucejo, Esteban; Romano, Teresa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
While instructional time is viewed as crucial to learning, little is known about the effectiveness of reducing absences relative to increasing the number of school days. In this regard, this paper jointly estimates the effect of absences and length of the school calendar on test score...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126031
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Money, well-being and loss aversion: does an income loss have a greater effect on well-being than an equivalent income gain?
Banks, James; Brown, Gordon D.A.; Boyce, Christopher J.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Higher income is associated with greater well-being, but do income gains and losses impact on well-being differently? Loss aversion, whereby losses loom larger than gains, is typically examined with relation to decisions about anticipated outcomes. Here, using subjective well-being data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126714
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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data
Clark, Andrew E.; D’Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126737