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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research

Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

happiness surveys to study well being in its various dimensions, ranging from well being within persons, to the determinants of … poor to make choices or to take certain actions. Happiness surveys are a means to assess the well being of individuals who … quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can …

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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. …

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Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? : laboratory evidence from trust and gift exchange games

Drouvelis, Michalis; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2013

significantly moderated by an increase in happiness for the person making the judgment. …

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Subjective wellbeing in Columbia : some insights on vulnerability, job security, and relative incomes

Krauss, Alexander; Graham, Carol - In: International journal of happiness and development 1 (2013) 3, pp. 233-260

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Political economy of happiness

Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 28/30, pp. 4205-4211

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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...

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Happiness of economists

Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...

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Happiness of economists

Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 10/12, pp. 990-1007

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Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives : competing channels in the relationship between others' income, health, and happiness

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Graham, Carol - 2016

We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income hypothesis (RIH) and altruism). The relationship is...

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Does sports make people happier, or do happy people more sports?

Frey, Bruno S.; Gullo, Anthony - 2021

Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the … effect of happiness on engaging in sports. …

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