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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662483
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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studied empirically. We...
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
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Formal institutions and subjective well-being : revisiting the cross-country evidencee
Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest … that the conclusions reached by previous studies are fairly sensitive to the specific measure of "happiness" used. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767724
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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?
Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2005
This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential,...
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337879
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What happiness research can tell us about self-control problems and utility misprediction
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2006
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Political institutions and suicide : a regional analysis of Switzerland
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2008
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