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Satisfaction Poverty Line, two the Leyden Poverty Line, and three the Subjective Well-Being Poverty Line. The first two poverty … lines are based on subjective questions regarding income and economic welfare while the last concept focuses on satisfaction …
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
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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...
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This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
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income effect differing between richer and poor individuals. The analysis uses a self-reported measure of satisfaction with …
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satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of … health satisfaction changes is estimated. Next, this health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to … estimate the income equivalent for these diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as …
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This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...
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Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
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physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British …
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asked to value on a finite scale their satisfaction with their own lives, a question that psychologists have long and often … have been using thismeasure of self-reported satisfaction as a proxy for utility so as to contribute to a better … understanding of individuals’ tastes and hopefully behavior. By means of satisfaction questions we can elicit information on …
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