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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008670043
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381986
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How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness?
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - 2002
Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness. Economists, on the other hand, usually only assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326407
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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326409
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Income and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
income effect differing between richer and poor individuals. The analysis uses a self-reported measure of satisfaction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326410
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of … health satisfaction changes is estimated. Next, this health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to … estimate the income equivalent for these diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326414
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326415
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Life satisfaction differences between workers and non-workers : the value of participation per se
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001
Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326416
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Age-differentiated QALI losses
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326417
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001650590