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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction : Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2012

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...

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Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. After a general review of past and...

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Valuing Pain using the Subjective Well-being Method

Ólafsdóttir, Thorhildur - 2017

Chronic pain clearly lowers utility, but it is empirically challenging to estimate the monetary compensation needed to offset this utility reduction. We use the subjective well-being method to estimate the value of pain relief among individuals age 50 and older. We use a sample of 64,205...

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Do People Report Happiness Accurately?

Andreoni, James; Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Jia, Tingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a novel validation method: subjects report how happy they would feel (or did feel) after some specified event, as well as how they would respond (or would have responded) to a...

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New measures of the costs of unemployment : Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...

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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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Measuring the subjective well-being of nations : national accounts of time use and well-being

Krueger, Alan B. (ed.) - 2009

household production / William Nordhaus -- Well-being measurement and public policy / Richard Layard -- International evidence …

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Taking the Pulse of Nations : a Biometric Measure of Well-being

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

lower life satisfaction and more pessimism about the future at age 50. Taken together, these results suggest social …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794615

International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …

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