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How has the crisis of 2008 - 2009 affected subjective well-being?

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011

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How has the crisis of 2008 - 2009 affected subjective well-being?

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011

Results of life satisfaction regressions for more than 91,000 individuals are used to investigate how the macroeconomic crisis of 2008-2009 has affected subjective well-being (SWB) in 30 OECD countries. In a number of countries, the effect of the crisis on a representative person's SWB is of a...

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Are pro-environmental consumption choices utility-maximizing? : evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2010 - Rev. version

This paper studies whether pro-environmental consumption choices are consistent with utility maximization and what role the consumption behavior of reference persons and one's own past behavior play in this context. By combining data on individuals' pro-environmental consumption from a unique...

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New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment : Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 3.3 Million Americans

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...

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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction : Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2012

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans

Edwards, Ryan D. - 2012

Recent military engagements in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF) raise questions about the effects on service members of overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section...

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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality

Goff, Leonard - 2016

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

Di Tella, Rafael - 2007

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of … in status and 52% of one standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long …

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909906

The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2019

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and …

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