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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size …

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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Abolishing GDP

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...

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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriëtte Maassen van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 … we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness … seems to us the natural consequence of the happiness economics methodology. In Section 5 we sketch how this approach can …

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

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - Tinbergen Instituut - 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 …

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Subjective Questions to Measure Welfare and Well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 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 Anatomy of Subjective Well-being

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Frijters, P.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...

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