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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. In- terpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
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Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances
Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough: The worldwide evidence on subjective well-being efficiency
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2020
Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness …
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical …
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...
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Perceived income inequality and subjective social status in Europe
Hajdu, Gábor - 2021
This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income inequality is, the lower the individual's perception...
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Happiness in the Lab: What Can Be Learned about Subjective Well-Being from Experiments?
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Goff, Sandra H. - 2021
The recent surge in analyses of subjective well-being (SWB) and the economics of happiness using large observational datasets has generated stylized facts about the relationship between SWB and various correlates. Because such studies are mostly concerned with the determinants of SWB, the...
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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores: evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Bartolini, Stefano; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and … approximately 1500 schools in 14 countries or regions. We perform regressions of student life satisfaction on the prevalence of …-selection. The average impact of group discussion is not small – a one standard deviation leads to an increase in life satisfaction …
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Child Gender and Subjective Well-being of Older Parents in China
Lei, Lei; Wu, Fengyu; Xia, Yiming - 2023
random, we find that having more daughters promotes older parents' SWB, especially overall life satisfaction, satisfaction … with health, and satisfaction with children. Our results suggest that the increase in SWB is achieved through better health …
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