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Happiness and Public Policy : A Procedural Perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjo, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074198
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An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007
Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
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Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023
We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the...
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U … effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty raises happiness, with a one standard-deviation change in beauty generating … about 0.10 standard deviations of additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
Clark, Andrew - 2011
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …-country phenomenon. Our stand is that the idea that growth will increase happiness in low-income countries cannot be rejected on the …
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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
Bonsang, Eric - 2011
We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of...
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
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Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011
This paper argues, in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental...
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