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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

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

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...

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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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The dark side of Chinese growth: Explaining decreasing well-being in times of economic boom.

Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The formidable economic growth of China in the past few decades led to outstanding improvements in virtually all objective indicators of standards of life. However, these objective records are in striking contrast with subjective ones. Between 1990 and 2007, Chinese average subjective well-being...

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Happiness matters: the role of well-being in productivity

DiMaria, Charles Henri; Peroni, Chiara; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This article is about the link between people’s subjective well-being, defined as an evaluation of one’s own life, and productivity. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that subjective well-being contributes to productivity using a two step approach: first, we establish whether subjective...

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