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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research

Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

happiness surveys to study well being in its various dimensions, ranging from well being within persons, to the determinants of … poor to make choices or to take certain actions. Happiness surveys are a means to assess the well being of individuals who … quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can …

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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which...

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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the UK over the period 1991-2001. Using “residual” self-rated health to provide instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing...

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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1032-1043

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue,...

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In brief: The long reach of childhood bullying

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Does the fear of being bullied in childhood affect people's resilience to adverse life events they may face in adulthood? The author investigates whether the 'scarring' effects are particularly damaging to individuals who lose their job.

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How much does money really matter? Estimating the causal effects of income on happiness

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - In: Empirical Economics 39 (2010) 1, pp. 77-92

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Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

British population view themselves as overweight, and that happiness and mental health are worse among fatter people in both …

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Gender and Well-being Around the World: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness

Graham, Carol; Chattopadhyay, Soumya - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2012

development. We aim to contribute to this work by looking at differences in reported well-being (happiness) across genders around … find substantial differences in the standard relationships between key variables - such as marriage - and happiness when we … affected by the same empirical and methodological factors that drive the paradoxes underlying the income and happiness debates …

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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for …

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Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence that individuals who become disabled go on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation...

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