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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132818
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Inter-Ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction
Sinning, Mathias - 2010
This paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than native-only and foreign-only couples
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136029
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138252
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The French Unhappiness Puzzle : The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Senik, Claudia - 2011
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent … affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to …-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117611
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top : Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117616
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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011
We first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard, et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119018
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2012
happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and … indirect effects that carry the influence from happiness to income. Significant mediating pathways include a higher probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096474
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Parents Transmit Happiness Along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children : A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
Headey, Bruce - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098823
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven - 2012
expenditures. Impacts on subjective well-being are complex, with mental health improving but happiness declining, self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099692
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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples : Are There Spillovers?
Wunder, Christoph - 2012
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099785