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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
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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 where error homoskedasticity is not assumed. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021706
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Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
well-being’, ‘affect’, ‘life satisfaction’, and ‘happiness’. It describes their measurements and operationalizations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078654
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Happiness and age cycles – return to start…
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
life satisfaction reaches another local maximum around the age of 83, with a level identical to that of a 26-years old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000017
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683292
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Weather as a transient influence on survey-reported satisfaction with life
Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Local weather conditions experienced by survey respondents on the day of the interview are used to assess the size of any bias resulting from transient affective influences on subjective response data and to test the validity of statistical inference about the determinants of subjective well-being.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685567
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107479
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108290
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109923
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111195