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Issues in the estimation of dynamic happiness models : a comment on "Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?"
Piper, Alan T.; Pugh, Geoff - 2016
This paper offers methodological comments on a recent (November 2014) Economic Journal article. The comments consider its use of a dynamic model - the inclusion of a lagged dependent variable - and its approach to estimation. By way of critique, the authors highlight general issues regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419154
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Unhappy young Australian : a domain approach to explain life satisfaction change in children
Beatton, Tony; Frijters, Paul - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009574363
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Destined for (un)happiness : does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael - 2011
-being, and renewed focus on effective policy interventions to aid disadvantaged children, we study a cohort of children born in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310156
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Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction? : evidence from British cohort surveys
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Shields, Michael - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 580, pp. 688-719
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Destined for (Un)Happiness : Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?
Frijters, Paul - 2011
-being, and renewed focus on effective policy interventions to aid disadvantaged children, we study a cohort of children born in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122962
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Modelling heterogeneity in the resilience to major socioeconomic life events
Etilé, Fabrice; Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694732
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Unhappy Young Australians: a domain approach to explain life satisfaction change in children
Beatton, Tony; Frijters, Paul - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2012
children. We find an even steeper happiness decline before the age of 14. Surprisingly, the "environment" domain has no … significant effect on childhood happiness, whilst the children's "school" and "interaction with friends" domains explain over 40 …% of the decline in childhood happiness. The decline in childhood happiness is steepest when the children transition from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561830
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Individual rationality and learning : welfare expectations in East Germany post-reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002
and those with children. However, expectations and realizations of life satisfaction in East Germany had converged by 1995 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411452
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A happy choice : wellbeing as the goal of government
Frijters, Paul; Clark, Andrew E.; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180850
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A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government
Frijters, Paul; Clark, Andrew E.; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129995