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The shadow prices of voluntary caregiving : using panel data of well-being to estimate the cost of informal care

McDonald, Rebecca; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2018

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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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users

Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017

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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Death, happiness, and the calculation of compensatory damages

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor); … - 2007

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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Resilience to economic shocks and the long reach of childhood bullying

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2012

potential implications for economists and policy makers are discussed. -- resilience ; adaptation ; happiness ; unemployment …

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Does it pay to bet on your favourite to win? : evidence on experienced utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup experiment

Kossuth, Lajos; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Harris, Donna; … - 2019

the tournament. This decision not to offset a potential loss through hedging did not pay off in people's happiness … following an England win. It was, however, associated with a sharp decrease in people's happiness following an England loss …. Post-match happiness is relatively more stable among those who chose to hedge or were randomly allocated to hedge. We …

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Overoptimistic entrepreneurs : predicting wellbeing consequences of self-employment

Odermatt, Reto; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...

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Have econometric analyses of happiness data been futile? : a simple truth about happiness scales

Chen, Le-Yu; Oparina, Ekaterina; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; … - 2019

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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