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SWB as a measure of individual well-being

Clark, Andrew E. - 2015

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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglin, Francesca - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 580, pp. 720-738

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National well-being policy and a weighted approach to human feelings

O'Donnell, Gus; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Ecological Economics

traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347199

[Rezension von: Graham, Carol, The pursuit of happiness, an economy of well-being]

Clark, Andrew E. - In: Journal of economic literature 50 (2012) 3, pp. 803-804

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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...

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Individual and societal wisdom : explaining the paradox of human aging and high well-being

Jeste, Dilip V.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

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Human well-being and in-work benefits : a randomized controlled trial

Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...

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Longitudinal evidence for a midlife nadir in human well-being : results from four data sets

Cheng, Terence Chai; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, … - 2014

There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a "U shape"). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence for a U-shaped pattern. Thus some researchers believe the U is a statistical artefact. We...

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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

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Upward social mobility, well-being and political preferences : evidence from the BHPS

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340467