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Zukunftsangst! Fear of (and hope for) the future and its impact on life satisfaction.
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and life satisfaction. The reduction in life satisfaction experienced by … satisfaction is made up of objective and subjective factors and methods exist to account for their potential endogeneity to enhance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111195
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The Benefits, Challenges and Insights of a Dynamic Panel assessment of Life Satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study discusses and employs dynamic panel data to investigate life satisfaction. A key result is that approximately 90% of the impact of any commonly measured variable on well-being is contemporaneous. This reflects the finding that lagged life satisfaction has a small, positive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111478
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Happiness, Dynamics and Adaptation
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This investigation employs dynamic panel analysis to provide new insights into the phenomenon of adaptation. Using the British Household Panel Survey, it is demonstrated that happiness is largely (but not wholly) contemporaneous. This can help provide explanations for previous findings, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259377
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Are fruit and vegetables good for our mental and physical health? Panel data evidence from Australia
Mujcic, Redzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on human well-being. Using individual-level panel data from a representative sample of Australian households, I estimate the intake of fruit and vegetables to have positive and statistically significant impacts on a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108290
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A Note on Modelling Dynamics in Happiness Estimations
Piper, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This short note discusses two alternative ways to model dynamics in happiness regressions. A explained, this may be … modelling dynamics two ways the note discusses are via a lagged dependent variable, and via an AR(1) process. The usefulness and … decisions regarding the choice regarding, and potential necessity of, modelling dynamics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112322
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Sleep duration and life satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Sleep is an important part of life, with an individual spending an estimated 32 years of her life asleep. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212955
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Sliding down the U-shape? An investigation of the age-well-being relationship, with a focus on young adults.
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
concerning the endogeneity or exogeneity of the regressors. The empirical results are in line with the U-shape, and the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114010
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An Investigation into Happiness, Dynamics and Adaptation
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
, and particularly its dynamics. Arguments are advanced for its use both in terms of the advantages such analysis offers …, and also because it takes into account dynamics omitted by more standard panel data estimation methods like fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110332
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Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co-existing concepts, resulting in differing measures and giving rise to different potential policy applications. This paper motivates the societal necessity for using well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078654
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Accounting for Unobserved Country Heterogeneity in Happiness Research: Country Fixed Effects versus Region Fixed Effects
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or not. Possibly, this ambiguity is caused by cross-section models that do not account for unobserved cultural and institutional effects. Using the World Value Survey 1980-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536074