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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435763
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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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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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Machiavelli versus concave utility functions : should bads be spread out or concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly data on six positive and twelve negative life events in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180363
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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017
preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … preferences enjoyed a life satisfaction rise of 0.16 points, while there was a drop of 0.15 points for those preferring to remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775929
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How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness?
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - 2002
Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness. Economists, on the other hand, usually only assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326407
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326415
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The value of reunification in Germany : an analysis of changes in life satisfaction
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002
implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in … hospital, whilst we find strong positive effects from income and marriage. Using a new causal decomposition technique, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405835
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Resilience to disaster: evidence from daily wellbeing data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel J.; … - 2021
As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how natural disasters in the US impacted individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493323
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The Value of Reunification in Germany : An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2021
implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in … hospital, whilst we find strong positive effects from income and marriage. Using a new causal decomposition technique, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320681