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Smoking bans, cigarette prices and life satisfaction : conference paper

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2014

The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...

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Recent developments in the economics of happiness : a selective overview

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2012

. The economics of happiness has emerged as one of the most thriving areas in current economic research. This introductory … chapter refers to important contributions to the economics of happiness that characterize the recent developments in the area …. First, we refer to reviews of the literature, the measurement and the relationship of happiness research to welfare …

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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - In: The journal of law, economics, & organization 24 (2008) 2, pp. 476-488

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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall...

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