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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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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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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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Happiness, economy and institutions

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2000

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A … higher income level raises happiness, however, only to a small extent. …

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Outcome, process & power in direct democracy

Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel; Stutzer, Alois - 1999

Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top bureaucrats are more constrained in direct de...

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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

enjoy the corresponding procedural utility. Utility is measured by individuals reported subjective well-being or happiness …

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TV-Konsum und Rationalität

Jegen, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Zwischen Marktversagen und Medienvielfalt : …, (pp. 150-166). 2004

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[Rezension von: Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois, Happiness and economics, how the economy and institutions affect [human] well-being]

Lane, R. E. - In: Journal of economics 78 (2003) 2, pp. 196-199

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Valuing public goods : the life satisfaction approach

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people's preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional...

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Valuing public goods : the life satisfaction approach

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

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