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which are more explicitly based on human wellbeing. This work has been inspired, in part, by Sen's non-utilitarian approach … paper, therefore, we develop a framework for understanding wellbeing, drawing closely on Sen's seminal contributions to … implement fully Sen's theory to provide a much richer account of the wellbeing outcomes that derive from economic progress than …
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entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based …
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how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel …
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The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction...
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Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …
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A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility …
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
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effects of violent crime victimisation on diverse measures of wellbeing. These results are then subsequently used to calculate … the monetary compensation required to offset the wellbeing losses. Estimates allowing for the endogeneity of income … are larger if the wellbeing losses of female family members are considered, and are larger for females if the perpetrator …
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indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to … translate economic growth into non-monetary wellbeing. We take into consideration that there is a feedback effect from monetary … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish …
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natural disasters in the US impacted individual wellbeing in a sample of 2.2 million observations, and whether the effect … sizes differed by individual- and county-level factors. The event-study design contrasts changes in wellbeing in counties … affected by disasters with that of residents in unaffected counties of the same state. We find that people's hedonic wellbeing …
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