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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …

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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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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of … health satisfaction changes is estimated. Next, this health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to … estimate the income equivalent for these diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326414

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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Life satisfaction differences between workers and non-workers : the value of participation per se

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001

Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …

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Age-differentiated QALI losses

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British …

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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model appraisal

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010

In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity , ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …

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