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Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2016
age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479398
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How the well-being function varies with age: The importance of income, health, and social relations over the life cycle
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan; Welsch, Heinz - 2023
Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … and living in misery) and for men and women. The agerelated changes in the importance of income and social relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316511
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2011
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280689
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286974