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Happy Times : Measuring Happiness Using Response Times
Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023
happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358107
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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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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...
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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 … effects are proportionate to the amount of time spend caring for grandchildren and increase with the number of grandchildren … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …
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Income and Happiness Across Europe : Do Reference Values Matter?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2021
that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and … life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the …
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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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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … 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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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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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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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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