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asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction. Using individual-level SWB data allows us to control for several … having a significant positive effect on self-reported life-satisfaction. Implications for researchers and policymakers are …
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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, mode of interviewing, and location of … distribution of reported satisfaction measures, particularly for women. Results from the sort of conditional modeling used to …
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. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
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decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
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comparisons in determining happiness. -- Happiness ; subjective well-being ; Easterlin Paradox ; life satisfaction ; economic …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …-being ; satisfaction ; income evaluation …
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individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
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Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence that individuals who become disabled go on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation...
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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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