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Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studied empirically. We...

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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall...

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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001

Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...

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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market

Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...

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What happiness research can tell us about self-control problems and utility misprediction

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2006

misprediction of utility. We propose the economics of happiness as a methodological approach to study these phenomena. Based on …

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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2005

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential,...

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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

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

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Recent developments in the economics of happiness: A selective overview

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2012

. The economics of happiness has emerged as one of the most thriving areas in current economic research. This introductory … chapter refers to important contributions to the economics of happiness that characterize the recent developments in the area …. First, we refer to reviews of the literature, the measurement and the relationship of happiness research to welfare …

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Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective

Stutzer, Alois - 2019

This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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