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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?

Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011

In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....

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Towards a theory of life satisfaction : accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change it. The most widely accepted theory in the recent past – set-point theory – focussed solely on stability (Brickman and Campbell, 1971; Lykken and Tellegen, 1996)....

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Parent transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children : a lifelong happiness divided?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for "children" who have … grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness … from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness …

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Alternative values-based "recipes" for life satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication

Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...

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