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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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A happy way to grow old? : grandparent caregiving, quality of life and life satisfaction

Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi - 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 …

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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to … expected. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; financial satisfaction ; Israel ; religion ; immigration ; terrorism …

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Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?

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

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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis

Praag, Bernard M. S. van (contributor) - 2007

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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners...

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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015

Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …

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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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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: March 15, 2013

likely require progress in closing racial gaps in objective circumstances. -- subjective well-being ; life satisfaction …

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