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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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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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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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' professional situation influence their well-being. Happiness is increased by having more research time while the lack of a tenured …
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Happiness research has significantly extended our knowledge about the factors determining individual well …-being. Several prominent scholars concluded that governments should engage in maximizing happiness. This approach is based on a … are aware of the Manipulation Principle stating that government tends to distort official happiness indicators in its …
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Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from … this literature is that people exhibit a baseline happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have … shown that genes play a significant role in explaining the variance of baseline happiness between individuals. However …
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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/10010269838