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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460285
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Happiness and the Quality of Government
Helliwell, John F. - 2020
This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479363
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Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. After a general review of past and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462763
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Valuing Pain using the Subjective Well-being Method
Ólafsdóttir, Thorhildur - 2017
Chronic pain clearly lowers utility, but it is empirically challenging to estimate the monetary compensation needed to offset this utility reduction. We use the subjective well-being method to estimate the value of pain relief among individuals age 50 and older. We use a sample of 64,205...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455033
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Do People Report Happiness Accurately?
Andreoni, James; Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Jia, Tingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a novel validation method: subjects report how happy they would feel (or did feel) after some specified event, as well as how they would respond (or would have responded) to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512062
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461828
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372485
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Taking the Pulse of Nations : a Biometric Measure of Well-being
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
lower life satisfaction and more pessimism about the future at age 50. Taken together, these results suggest social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794615
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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463927
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Wellbeing Rankings
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477251