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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,...

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Subjective well-being, income and relative concerns in the UK

Distante, Roberta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We present an empirical model aimed at testing the relative income hypothesis and the effect of deprivation relative to … mean income on subjective well-being. The main concern is to deal with subjective panel data in an ordered response model … income impacts negatively on both completely satisfied and dissatisfied individuals, while relative income affects positively …

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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

, this paper identifies the predictors of the trend of life satisfaction in China between 1990 and 2007. Our findings suggest … higher well-being inequality: those in the lowest three income deciles and the middle-class experienced a significant …

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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

statistically significant impacts on a wide range of subjective well-being measures, including life satisfaction, self …

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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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Zukunftsangst! Fear of (and hope for) the future and its impact on life satisfaction.

Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive … disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and life satisfaction. The reduction in life satisfaction experienced by … individuals’ thoughts about the future substantially increases the explanatory power of standard life satisfaction models. Life …

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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 … lagged life satisfaction has a small, positive and significant effect on current life satisfaction. A related key benefit of …

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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match.

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and … income redistribution. Income inequality is predicted to have a more favorable impact on subjective wellbeing for individuals … differences in individual tolerance for income inequality, and the predicted influence of actual fairness. …

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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