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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333286
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290771
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291399
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Money and mental wellbeing : a longitudinal study of medium-sized lottery wins
Gardner, Jonathan (contributor);  … - 2006
measured improvement in mental wellbeing is 1.4 GHQ points. -- psychological health ; happiness ; GHQ ; income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355562
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Money and mental wellbeing : a longitudinal study of medium-sized lottery wins
Gardner, Jonathan (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355999
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Money and mental wellbeing : a longitudinal study of medium-sized lottery wins
Gardner, Jonathan; Oswald, Andrew J. - In: Journal of health economics 26 (2007) 1, pp. 49-60
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003407926
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The macroeconomics of happiness
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert; Oswald, Andrew J. - 1999
A large literature in macroeconomics assumes a social objective function, W(p, U), where inflation, p, and unemployment, U, are bads. This paper provides some of the first formal evidence for such an approach. It uses data on the reported well-being levels of approximately one quarter of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010514295
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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239263
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196645
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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347893