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Divided we stand : immigration attitudes, identity, and subjective well-being
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2017
above. A 1-standard-deviation (SD) increase in IF is associated with an increase in 11-point life satisfaction (LS) by 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724593
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Green behavior, green self-image, and subjective well-being : separating affective and cognitive relationships
Welsch, Heinz; Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 179 (2021), pp. 1-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819827
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Environment and happiness : valuation of air pollution in ten European countries
Welsch, Heinz - 2003
This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions. This approach permits to show that citizens care about prosperity and the environment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438755
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How has the crisis of 2008 - 2009 affected subjective well-being?
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011
Results of life satisfaction regressions for more than 91,000 individuals are used to investigate how the macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438702
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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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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people’s SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582002
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Income comparison, income formation, and subjective well-being : new evidence on envy versus signaling
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 59 (2015), pp. 21-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567308
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Well-being effects of a major natural disaster : the case of Fukushima
Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz; Narita, Daiju; Okubo, … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 116 (2015), pp. 500-517
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567951
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Energy affordability and subjective well-being : evidence for European countries
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - In: The energy journal 38 (2017) 3, pp. 159-176
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661831
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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556229