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Does happiness adapt? : A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411731
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Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries
Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295227
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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193738
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Life events and subjective well-being : the case of having children
Pedersen, Peder J.; Dall Schmidt, Torben - 2014
The literature on Happiness and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) has been dominated by studies of the impact from income and labour market status - and the impact on happiness from changes in these determinants. It seems obvious to expect an impact from non-economic factors as well. In the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358765
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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457380
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Flexible jobs make parents happier: evidence from Australia
Yu, Shuye; Postepska, Agnieszka - 2020
Recent studies have found that self-reported life satisfaction drops during the transition into parenthood which has … alleviate this drop in parental life satisfaction during this period. A fixed-effects analysis in an event study framework using … part-time jobs (0-20 hours per week) exhibit greater life satisfaction than mothers who work full-time, especially when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290837
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Parental well-being in times of COVID-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257963
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Machiavelli versus concave utility functions : should bads be spread out or concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly data on six positive and twelve negative life events in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180363
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Antidepressants and age
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011
Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take antidepressants each year. The probability of antidepressant use is greatest among those who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309631
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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2012
satisfaction ; quality of life ; Easterlin Paradox ; adaptation ; economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683272