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Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …
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Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529124
which are more explicitly based on human wellbeing. This work has been inspired, in part, by Sen's non-utilitarian approach … paper, therefore, we develop a framework for understanding wellbeing, drawing closely on Sen's seminal contributions to … implement fully Sen's theory to provide a much richer account of the wellbeing outcomes that derive from economic progress than …
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entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based …
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how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel …
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The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction...
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The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant … but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships …, Hungary and the Netherlands – to provide a reconsideration of the impact of economic wellbeing on happiness. The main …
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The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant … but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships …, Hungary and the Netherlands – to provide a reconsideration of the impact of economic wellbeing on happiness. The main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763522
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
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effects of violent crime victimisation on diverse measures of wellbeing. These results are then subsequently used to calculate … the monetary compensation required to offset the wellbeing losses. Estimates allowing for the endogeneity of income … are larger if the wellbeing losses of female family members are considered, and are larger for females if the perpetrator …
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