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Happiness Economics: A New Road to Measuring and Comparing Happiness
Praag, Bernard M. S. Van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics 6 (2011) 1, pp. 1-97
This paper deals with the concept of happiness in economics. Of late there has come into life a branch of <italic>happiness … quantifications of happiness but also researchers in other disciplines. Notably there are several psychologists who investigate … happiness as well. We mention Schimmack et al. (2002), Kahneman et al. (1999, 2006), Kahneman and Krueger (2006), Clark et al …
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
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Poverty profiles and well-being: panel evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - In: Measurement of poverty, deprivation, and economic mobility, (pp. 1-22). 2015
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Relative deprivation in Tanzania
Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019
This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...
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Unfairness at work : well-being and quits
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Clark, Andrew E.; Barazzetta, Marta - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 51 (2018), pp. 307-316
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Childhood circumstances and young adult outcomes : the role of mothers' financial problems
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Barazzetta, Marta - 2019
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective...
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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2007 - This version: February 2007
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628625
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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - In: The review of economics and statistics 98 (2016) 3, pp. 591-600
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