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Energy Prices, Energy Poverty, and Well-Being: Evidence for European Countries
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2014
This paper uses data on the life satisfaction of more than 100,000 individuals in 21 European countries, 2002-2011, to study the relationship between subjective well-being and the prices for households of electricity, oil and gas. We find that energy prices have statistically and economically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435703
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Energy prices, energy poverty, and well-being : evidence for European countries
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2014
This paper uses data on the life satisfaction of more than 100,000 individuals in 21 European countries, 2002 - 2011, to study the relationship between subjective well-being and the prices for households of electricity, oil and gas. We find that energy prices have statistically and economically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407844
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Energy Prices, Energy Poverty, and Well-Being: Evidence for European Countries
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Carl von Ossietzky … - 2014
This paper uses data on the life satisfaction of more than 100,000 individuals in 21 European countries, 2002-2011, to study the relationship between subjective well-being and the prices for households of electricity, oil and gas. We find that energy prices have statistically and economically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929214
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Are pro-environmental consumption choices utility-maximizing? Evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - In: Ecological Economics 72 (2011) C, pp. 75-87
This paper studies whether pro-environmental consumption choices are consistent with utility maximization and what role the consumption behavior of reference persons and one's own past behavior play in this context. By combining data on individuals' pro-environmental consumption from a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043622
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How the well-being function varies with age : the importance of income, health, and social relations over the life cycle
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan; Welsch, Heinz - 2023 - This Version: July 2023
Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014308146
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Organic food and human health : instrumental variables evidence
Welsch, Heinz - 2012
Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health … benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses … survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal relationship between OF consumption and self-rated health status. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697865
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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/10011564984
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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/10011594503
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Anti-Inflation Policy Benefits the Poor: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011
Using subjective well-being data for more than 91,000 individuals in 30 OECD countries, 1990-2008, we study how people's implicit aversion towards inflation varies with income and other socio-economic characteristics. While inflation aversion decreases with income, it increases with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435677
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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