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Rising aspirations dampen satisfaction

Clark, Andrew E.; Kamesaka, Akiko; Tamura, Teruyuki - In: Education economics 23 (2015) 5/6, pp. 515-531

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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health

Apouey, Benedicte; Clark, Andrew E. - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 5, pp. 516-538

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Money, well-being and loss aversion : does an income loss have a greater effect on well-being than an equivalent income gain?

Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M.; Banks, James; … - 2014

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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood

Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016

age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …

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Poverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...

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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Where Should We Live?

Clark, Andrew E. - In: Review of Economic Analysis 2 (2010) 1, pp. 20-31

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and …

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Winning big but feeling no better? The effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health

Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2014

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on self-assessed overall health, but a significant positive effect …

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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2010

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Conforming to … the Easterlin paradox, higher income always correlates with higher happiness, except in one case: whether national income …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738855