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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...
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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...
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 51 (2003) 1, pp. 29-49
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001650590
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Can the large swings in Russian life satisfaction be explained by ups and downs in real incomes?
Frijters, Paul; Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; … - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 108 (2006) 3, pp. 433-458
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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?
Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y. C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171
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A lifecycle perspective of stock market performance and wellbeing
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 112 (2015), pp. 237-250
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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...
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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 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 … that East Germans experienced a continued improvement in life satisfaction after 1990 to which increased household incomes …
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