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Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2014

’ response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …

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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data

Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019

We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person's employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...

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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children's life satisfaction. When controlling...

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When money does not buy happiness : the case of "frustated achievers"

Becchetti, Leonardo; Rossetti, Fiammetta - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 1, pp. 159-167

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Inequality and happiness : when perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …. Consistent with our theoretical model, the results for high-mobility countries turn out to be ambiguous. -- happiness ; life …

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Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2007

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A note on interdependent happiness

Bolle, Friedel; Okhrin, Yarema; Vogel, Claudia - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 5, pp. 713-721

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The cost of well-being

Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015

Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

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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