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This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...
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This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...
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over the world currently use ad hoc methods. -- disability ; adaptation ; happiness ; legal compensation ; wellbeing ; GHQ …
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paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for … compensation amounts are discussed. -- Bereavement ; damages ; happiness ; compensation ; well-being ; GHQ scores …
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British population view themselves as overweight, and that happiness and mental health are worse among fatter people in both …
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potential implications for economists and policy makers are discussed. -- resilience ; adaptation ; happiness ; unemployment …
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Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of … observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that com-paring the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …
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