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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This … indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their level of welfare and well-being. For a meaningful analysis of subjective … responses among individuals can be compared. Both assumptions are discussed here. Next, empirical studies that use subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326409
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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326418
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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2003
an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438890
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, B.M.S - 2021
an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320645
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129871
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010
expected. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; financial satisfaction ; Israel ; religion ; immigration ; terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697099
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010
expected. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; financial satisfaction ; Israel ; religion ; immigration ; terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007346
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity , ethnicity, and war
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381986
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How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness?
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - 2002
Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness. Economists, on the other hand, usually only assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326407
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Income and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326410