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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
controlling for the rate of unemployment and per capita GDP. The character of poverty as a public bad suggests that poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582002
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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
controlling for the rate of unemployment and per capita GDP. The character of poverty as a public bad suggests that poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556229
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Measuring renewable energy externalities : evidence from subjective well-being data
Möllendorff, Charlotte von; Welsch, Heinz - 2015
Electricity from renewable sources avoids disadvantages of conventional power generation but often meets with local resistance due to visual, acoustic, and odor nuisance. We use representative panel data on the subjective well-being of 46,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305328
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Measuring renewable energy : evidence from subjective well-being data
Möllendorff, Charlotte von; Welsch, Heinz - 2014
Electricity from renewable sources avoids the disadvantages of conventional power generation (air pollution, greenhouse gases, nuclear risk) but often meets with local resistance due to visual, acoustic, and odor nuisance. We use representative panel data on the subjective well-being of 36,475...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466478
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Poverty is a Public Bad : Panel Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data
Welsch, Heinz - 2017
controlling for the rate of unemployment and per capita GDP. The character of poverty as a public bad suggests that poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962683
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Do national well-being scores capture nations' ecological resilience? : evidence for 124 countries
Welsch, Heinz - 2024
Resilience is the ability of an entity to manage a destabilizing shock or rise in pressure. The recently published State Resilience Index (SRI) includes ecological resilience along with several other "pillars" of state resilience. Given that indicators of subjective well-being (SWB) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448265
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Changing conditions, persistent mentality : an anatomy of East German unhappiness, 1990-2016
Biermann, Philipp; Welsch, Heinz - 2019
We decompose the persistent satisfaction gap between East and West Germany into effects of objective circumstances and … of residence. Using about 420,000 observations, 1990-2016, we find 54.4 percent of the satisfaction gap to be … contribution of mentality to the satisfaction gap being 81.2 percent in this cohort group. While the circumstance-related gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999828
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Using life satisfaction and happiness data for environmental valuation : an experienced preference approach
Ferreira, Susana; Moro, Mirko; Welsch, Heinz - 2024
A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454771
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Preferences over prosperity and pollution : environmental valuation based on happiness surveys
Welsch, Heinz - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001607123
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Freedom and rationality as predictors of cross-national happiness patterns : the role of income as a mediating variable
Welsch, Heinz - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001693015