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Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood : Evidence from a Nationwide Survey

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011

This paper tests whether there is a potential payoff to grandparenthood in terms of life satisfaction. Using the new nationwide survey for the UK, which consists of over 5,000 grandparents and 6,000 non-grandparents aged 40 and above, and a flexible multiple-index ordered probit model with...

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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Layard, Richard - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for …

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Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth About Happiness Scales

Chen, Le‐Yu - 2019

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of … observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that comparing the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …

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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017

We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...

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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances : A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users

Moschion, Julie - 2017

This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...

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Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs : Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...

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Obesity, Unhappiness, and the Challenge of Affluence : Theory and Evidence

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

British population view themselves as overweight, and that happiness and mental health are worse among fatter people in both …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767092

Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth About Happiness Scales

Chen, Le‐Yu - 2019

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of … observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that com-paring the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870349

Do Perceptions of Economic Well-Being Predict the Onset of War and Peace?

Swee, Eik - 2019

While economic deprivation is an important determinant of civil conflict, it cannot completely explain the incentives for warfare. In irregular wars, for example, both incumbents and insurgents may employ various tactics to win the hearts and minds of civilians in order to muster territorial...

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