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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
the quality of life measurement; that good performances in BLI are not necessarily due to a high efficiency of the whole …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305432
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171696
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Embedding as a pitfall for survey-based welfare indicators : evidence from an experiment
Hetschko, Clemens; Reumont, Louisa von; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017 - This version: March, 2017
How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according...
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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/10014251062
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The societal responses to Covid-19 : evidence from the G7 countries
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper provides a new picture of how countries have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the effects of the pandemic in terms of normative foundations for societal wellbeing. Social prosperity depends primarily on the functioning of four domains: the economy, the state, civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514534
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Happiness, economy and institutions
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2000
A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via initiatives and referenda) and of federal structure (local autonomy) systematically and sizeably raise s elf-reported individual well-being. This positive effect can be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781520
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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 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/10012260836
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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; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064990
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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted … that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …' locations. The protest environment reduced the probability of life satisfaction by 3.7 percentage points. Moreover, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340228
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551530