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How important is Methodology for the Estimates of the Determinants of Happiness?

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness. Economists, on the other hand, usually only assume...

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The Anatomy of Subjective Well-being

Praag, B.M.S. van; Frijters, P.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set. …

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Income and Well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or … happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main … novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of own income, relevance of the income of the reference group and of …

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Growing richer and taller: Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status during Vietnam’s Economic Boom

O'Donnell, Owen; Nicolás, Ángel López; Doorslaer, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

distribution of child nutritional status can be explained by changes in the level and distribution of income, and of other … distribution of income. Covariates, including income, explain less of the decrease in very severe malnutrition, which is largely …

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Abolishing GDP

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...

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Are Urban Children really healthier?

Poel, Ellen van de; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...

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What explains the Rural-Urban Gap in Infant Mortality — Household or Community Characteristics?

Poel, Ellen van de; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the ontribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Western...

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Intra-household Work Time Synchronization: Togetherness or Material Benefits?

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriëtte Maassen van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing...

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Subjective Questions to Measure Welfare and Well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...

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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), 'Economics and Happiness. Framing the Analysis', Oxford University Press, 2005.

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