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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2012
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291356
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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality : Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2005
-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274096
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2011
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280689
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Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269079
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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282290
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Work to live or live to work? Unemployment, happiness, and culture
Krause, Annabelle - 2011
significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282372
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Age-Differentiated QALY Losses
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001
impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276959
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277039
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278781
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Multidimensional well-being at the top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282585