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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Clark, Andrew E. - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

Fleche, Sarah - 2015

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

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Getting Warmer : Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2022

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin" …

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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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Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress

Anand, Paul - 2016

In recent years considerable interest has developed in going 'beyond GDP' to develop measures of economic progress which are more explicitly based on human wellbeing. This work has been inspired, in part, by Sen's non-utilitarian approach to welfare economics, but has been constrained by a lack...

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(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events

Odermatt, Reto - 2015

The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...

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Happiness and Growth the World Over : Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...

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Happiness and Economic Growth : Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009

Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...

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The Development and Happiness of Very Young Children

Anand, Paul - 2016

The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...

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The Long-Term Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011

This paper assesses the long-term subjective well-being and mental health toll of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in the general Ukrainian population and estimates the monetary differential necessary to compensate victims of the catastrophe. The analysis is based on two nationally representative...

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