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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398283
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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884101
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Subjective well-being and relative poverty in rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282155
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What Matters for Life Satisfaction among the Oldest-Old? Evidence from China
Ng, Sor Tho; Tey, Nai Peng; Asadullah, Niaz - 2017
This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over … and community factors on life satisfaction and depression among the oldest-old in China. Our analysis confirms the … significance of many factors affecting life satisfaction among the oldest-old in China. Factors that are correlated with life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653352
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Subjective Well-being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location
Asadullah, Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Emile Kok-Kheng - 2016
-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451206
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279249
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141184
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Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries
Nikolova, Milena; Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
The fall of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe restored ordinary citizens' rights and freedoms and ended their political and social isolation. While the freedom of movement was quickly embraced, civil society revival lagged due to the eroded civic norms, declining social capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401811
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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP
Tsakloglou, Panos; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001
cumulative disadvantage? and attempts to identify population members at high risk of social exclusion in EU countries using the … higher risk of social exclusion than the rest of the population. To a large extent, this risk is accounted by the higher than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262596
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What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207793