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health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in … subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental …
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individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
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We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel...
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life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the …
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Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China’s urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...
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Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental identification problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified assumptions about the...
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This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
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enforcement seem to have been the main channels behind the lack of an impact. We find no externality on a wide range of domains …
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-in-differences approach, we find that the Spring DST causes a significant decline in life satisfaction. By inducing a reallocation of time …, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
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