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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 … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong …
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Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested – and four negative affect variables – pain … ranks lowest - just below South Sudan. The Nordic countries that traditionally rank high using life satisfaction do not rank …
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of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment …
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We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … estimation methods and potential omitted variable bias. We also explore the channels through which energy poverty influences …
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Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...
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Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are...
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In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...
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Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
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Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble....
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over … also report less satisfaction with life. At the same time, our evidence suggests that relative wealth effect is stronger …
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