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Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the easterlin paradox

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … comparisons in determining happiness. -- Happiness ; subjective well-being ; Easterlin Paradox ; life satisfaction ; economic …

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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?

Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2005

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158657

The paradox of declining female happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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

Praag, Bernard M. S. van (contributor) - 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 assumption of ordinal individual utilities. In Section 4 we introduce a cardinal …

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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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The compensating income variation of social capital

Groot, Wim (contributor); … - 2006

There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different measures of social capital: the size of the individual s social network, the extent of their...

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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. -- Economics ; happiness ; life …

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010

vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … expected. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; financial satisfaction ; Israel ; religion ; immigration ; terrorism …

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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