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Death, happiness, and the calculation of compensatory damages

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2007

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

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Life satisfaction in urban China: components and determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2008

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment,...

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Happiness and productivity

Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2009

The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do not. Treated subjects have 12% greater …

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Are happiness and productivity lower among university students with newly-divorced parents? An experimental approach

Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2010

study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …

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Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

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International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely be … replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is higher … happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well-being across nations is lower …

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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...

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Job satisfaction and family happiness: the part-time work puzzle

Booth, Alison L.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2007

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...

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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...

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Does migration make you happy? A longitudinal study of internal migration and subjective well-being

Nowok, Beata; van Ham, Maarten; Findlay, Allan M.; … - 2011

significant decline in happiness. The boost that is received through migration appears to bring people back to their initial level … of happiness. As opposed to labour market outcomes of migration, SWB outcomes do not differ significantly between men and …

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