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A Note on the High Stability of Happiness : The Minimal Effects of a Nuclear Catastrophe on Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - 2013
happiness‘ This paper will analyze the impact of a catastrophe, namely the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl, on life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217487
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Estimating Benefits from Regional Amenities : Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction
Fasshauer, Angela - 2015
This paper is the first to link economic theory with empirical life-satisfaction analyses referring to internal migration. We derive an extension of the Roback (1982) model to account for benefits from regional amenities in the utility function, while controlling for income, housing costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023261
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Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction - A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany
Headey, Bruce; Schupp, Jürgen; Tucci, Ingrid; Wagner, … - 2010
, on SWB is hard to reconcile with set-point theory. It is more in line with authentic happiness theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211627
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...
Hajek, André - 2011
In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128105
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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012
In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113216
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Income Comparisons, Income Adaptation, and Life Satisfaction : How Robust are Estimates from Survey Data?
Pfaff, Tobias - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests of the effects often rely on self-constructed measures from survey data. This paper shows that results can be highly sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081629
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Income Comparison, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being : New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling
Welsch, Heinz - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082617
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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being
Goerke, Laszlo - 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083124
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Well-Being over the Life Span : Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Wunder, Christoph - 2009
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159884
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The Marginal Utility of Income
Layard, Richard - 2008
inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small - yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725445