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Income and Happiness Across Europe : Do Reference Values Matter?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2021
life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the … in environments with stable income and employment, reference income serves as a basis for social comparisons, whereas in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316734
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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291564
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Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction : German Results with an Australian Replication
Headey, Bruce - 2018
In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908666
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Trust, Happiness, and Pro-Social Behavior
Carattini, Stefano - 2020
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825395
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A Happy Way to Grow Old? Grandparent Caregiving, Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction
Wang, Hao - 2019
study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866376
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The Baby Year Parental Leave Reform in the GDR and its Impact on Children's Long-Term Life Satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina - 2019
-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … robust positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is … the increase in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861477
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Group-Specific Redistribution, Inequality, and Subjective Well-Being in China
Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
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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Happy Times : Measuring Happiness Using Response Times
Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358107
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Satisfaction with Amenities and Taste for Revolt in the Middle East
Gholipour, Hassan F.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals’ satisfaction with amenities and … infrastructure) and applying Probit regressions, our results show that satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality … more pronounced in urban areas, particularly in large cities. We also find that individuals’ satisfaction with amenities …
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