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Going beyond average Joe's Happiness : using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2010

distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …

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An examination of the dynamics of well-being and life events using vector autoregressions

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 76 (2010) 2, pp. 352-371

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909203

An examination of the dynamics of happiness using vector autoregressions

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2009

We use a panel vector autoregressions model to examine the coevolution of changes in happiness and changes in income … happiness are associated with subsequent increases in income, marriage, employment, and health variables, while increases in the … these life-domain variables (except health) tend to be followed by decreases in happiness in subsequent periods, suggesting …

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The structure of happiness : a vector autoregressive approach

Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - 2011

autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …-being ; happiness ; vector autoregressions ; SOEP ; personality traits …

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From Average Joe's happiness to Miserable Jane and Cheerful John : using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 79 (2011) 3, pp. 275-290

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Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective wellbeing : a quantile approach

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - In: Economica 82 (2015) 328, pp. 865-891

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Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John : the impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being

Binder, Martin - 2015

This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...

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Volunteering and life satisfaction : a closer look at the hypothesis that volunteering more strongly benefits the unhappy

Binder, Martin - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 874-885

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". . . Do it with joy!" : subjective well-being outcomes of working in non-profit organizations

Binder, Martin - 2015

Working in non-profit organizations has been shown to be good for individuals' satisfaction with their jobs despite lower incomes. This paper explores the impact of nonprofit work on life satisfaction more general for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and finds a significant positive...

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Unemployment impacts differently on the extremes of the distribution of a comprehensive well-being measure

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 7/9, pp. 619-627

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