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The compensating income variation of social capital

Groot, Wim; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; Praag, … - 2007

income generally has a statistically significant effect. We find a significant effect of social capital on?life?satisfaction …

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

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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Abolishing GDP

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007

Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...

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Welfare state and life satisfaction : evidence from public health care

Laamanen, Jani-Petri; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2007

, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a … positive effect on individuals' life satisfaction in our data. We further illustrate how life satisfaction data can be used to …

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On the nature, modeling, and neural bases of social ties

Winden, Frans A. A. M. van; Stallen, Mirre; … - 2008

Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual...

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I can't get no satisfaction : necessity entrepreneurship and procedural utility

Block, Jörn; Koellinger, Philipp - 2008

self-reported satisfaction regarding their start-up. Our study identifies a new facet of procedural utility and offers new … entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up—not because their start-up fails to deliver financial returns, but …-financial incentives of entrepreneurs. While financial success is the most important determinant of start-up satisfaction, achievement of …

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Measuring power and satisfaction in societies with opinion leaders : dictator and opinion leader properties

Brink, René van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - 2009

satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …

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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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Homo reciprocans revisited

Zheng, Jin Di - 2017

earns than the reference, I investigate how effort and job satisfaction react to reciprocity tendencies. The results suggest … stronger her positive reciprocity tendency is. However, there is no such interaction for negative reciprocity. Job satisfaction …

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Social network sites, individual social capital and happiness

Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn J.; Novik, Natallia A. - 2016

Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the growing use of social network sites (SNSs), attention has been increasingly drawn to this topic. Our study empirically examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different...

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