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In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …
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, on SWB is hard to reconcile with set-point theory. It is more in line with authentic happiness theory. -- SWB ; life … satisfaction ; set-point theory ; authentic happiness theory ; longitudinal analysis ; SOEP …
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to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
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negative coefficient, suggesting that a good quality neighbourhood increases happiness with little loss due to negative …
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Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
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Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local...
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