Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 962
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316734
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080052
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries: A preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276728
Cover Image
Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826060
Cover Image
Expecting Brexit
Dhingra, Swati; Sampson, Thomas - 2022
The Brexit vote precipitated the unravelling of the UK’s membership of the world’s deepest economic integration … agreement. This paper reviews evidence on the realized economic effects of Brexit. The 2016 Brexit referendum changed … and uncertainty shocks. Voting for Brexit had large negative effects on the UK economy between 2016 and 2019, leading to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306955
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Nineteenth Century Body Mass, Height, and Weight: Inequality across Quantiles
Carson, Scott A. - 2021
The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599222
Cover Image
Nineteenth Century Body Mass, Height, and Weight : Inequality Across Quantiles
Carson, Scott A. - 2021
The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224101