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Approval of equal rights and gender : differences in well-being

Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the appropriate pay for women compared to men may explain these findings. In order to capture the spatial variation in such norms, we take community level information on citizens' approval...

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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450210

Does Marriage Make People Happy, or Do Happy People Get Married?

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2005

' educational level have a negative effect on experienced life satisfaction …

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Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries

Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois - 2020

institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North … America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the …

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Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries

Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 204 (2022), pp. 600-617

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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible...

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Does the dream of home ownership rest upon biased beliefs? : a test based on predicted and realized life satisfaction

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2020

happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers … systematically overestimate the life satisfaction associated with living in their privately owned property. To identify potential … prediction errors, we compare people's forecasts of their life satisfaction in five years' time with their current realizations …

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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market

Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007 - This version: February 10, 2007

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Subjective well-being and public policy

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Outcome, process & power in direct democracy : new econometric results

Frey, Bruno S. - 1999

Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top bureaucrats are more constrained in direct...

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