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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...
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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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Competition and well-being
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004
We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...
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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 …
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being : a survey
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
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The structure of German well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul - 1998
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A structural model of well-being : with an application to German data
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2000
In this paper we attempt to explain individual, ordinally comparable,satisfaction levels. We postulate a simultaneous … equation model where general satisfaction isexplained by exogenous shock and level variables, and by the values of the … commonexplanatory variables;General Satisfaction may be seen as an aggregate of the six domainsatisfactions. …
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Astructural model of well-being : with an application to German data
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2000
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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007
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