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Can having internal locus of control insure against negative shocks? : psychological evidence from panel data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 122 (2016), pp. 88-109
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Overoptimistic entrepreneurs : predicting wellbeing consequences of self-employment
Odermatt, Reto; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2017
satisfaction with their actual life satisfaction five years later on. This overoptimism also holds for those entrepreneurs who … reflected in higher working hours than desired and the drop in leisure satisfaction. …
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Are newly self-employed overly optimistic about their future well-being?
Odermatt, Reto; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 95 (2021), pp. 1-15
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What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood?
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 45 (2014), pp. 84-101
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Top incomes and human well-being around the world
Burkhauser, Richard V.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; … - 2016
The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study combines the latest data to examine the relationship...
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglin, Francesca - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 580, pp. 720-738
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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to...
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The shadow prices of voluntary caregiving : using panel data of well-being to estimate the cost of informal care
McDonald, Rebecca; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2018
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340493
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …
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