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life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two …
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physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …
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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...
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Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
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We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …
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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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This paper empirically studies how emission pricing affects capital replacement and adoption of embodied environmental technology. A pricing policy encourages firms to accelerate retirement of old capital assets and replace them with newer more efficient assets, but this may crowd out...
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, have lowered pollution intensities strongly; induced improvements in productivity have further reduced them; and trade … integration into the EU has had insignificant effects on emission intensities. We also do not find evidence of within-EU pollution …
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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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