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Going beyond average Joe's Happiness : using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2010
distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662880
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Disentangling the circularity in sen's capability approach : an analysis of the co-evolution of functioning achievement and resources
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - 2010
There is an ambiguity in Amartya Sen's capability approach as to what constitutes an individual's resources, conversion factors and valuable functionings. What we here call the "circularity problem" points to the fact that all three concepts seem to be mutually endogenous and interrelated. All...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973484
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Life satisfaction and self-employment : a matching approach
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2010
confounders". -- self-employment ; happiness ; matching estimators ; unemployment ; BHPS ; necessity entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779985
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An examination of the dynamics of happiness using vector autoregressions
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2009
We use a panel vector autoregressions model to examine the coevolution of changes in happiness and changes in income … happiness are associated with subsequent increases in income, marriage, employment, and health variables, while increases in the … these life-domain variables (except health) tend to be followed by decreases in happiness in subsequent periods, suggesting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875894
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A note on interdependent happiness
Bolle, Friedel; Okhrin, Yarema; Vogel, Claudia - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 5, pp. 713-721
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921268
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The structure of happiness : a vector autoregressive approach
Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - 2011
autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …-being ; happiness ; vector autoregressions ; SOEP ; personality traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152984
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Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John : the impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being
Binder, Martin - 2015
This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285402
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Axiomatic measurement of multidimensional well-being inequality : some distributional questions
Croci Angelini, Elisabetta; Michelangeli, Alessandra - In: The journal of socio-economics 41 (2012) 5, pp. 548-557
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689417
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Happiness in Europe : cross-country differences in the determinants of satisfaction with main activity
Pedersen, Peder J.; Dall Schmidt, Torben - In: The journal of socio-economics 40 (2011) 5, pp. 480-489
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419831
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Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach
Coad, Alexander; Binder, Martin - 2013
Work and life satisfaction depend on a number of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors at the workplace and determine these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a German sample of the working populace from 1984-2008.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223017