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Happiness, Philosophy and Economics
Andrew Hodge - 2011
Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This research provides a number of interesting...
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On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation
Moro, Mirko; Ferreira, Susana - 2009
This paper explores the potential of using subjective well-being (SWB) data to valueenvironmental attributes. A theoretical framework compares this method, also known as the lifesatisfaction approach, with the standard hedonic pricing approach, identifying their similarities and differences. As...
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Essays on the Economics of Happiness.
Gregoire Rousseau, Jean-Benoit - 2009
The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...
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Fairly satisfied : economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
O'Connell, Michael F. - 2004
Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The...
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Zufriedenheit und relatives Einkommen: Eine empirische Analyse von inter- und intrapersonellen Einkommensvergleichen aus ?konomischer Perspektive
Wunder, Christoph - 2009
Die ?konomisch-empirische Zufriedenheitsforschung ist ein noch relativ junger Zweig der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung, der Befragungsdaten zur individuellen, subjektiv empfundenen Zufriedenheit analysiert. Erste empirische Evidenz auf diesem Gebiet l?sst dabei Zweifel an der Pr?misse der...
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Measuring European Economic Integration
König, Jörg - 2014
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Development and Globalization
Lohmann, Steffen - 2015
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Geothermal Heat Pump Profitability in Energy Services
2007
Toronto, Ontario; we also modeled a similar building under the weather conditions of Orlando, Florida. An aggregated …
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AMMA 2005 Dakar International Conference to be Held November 28-December 2, 2005
Lamb, Peter - 2008
Airport); Alhassane Diallo (Meteorological Engineer, Burkina Faso Weather Service).The following three individuals were partly … (International Relations, Niger Weather Service); Mamoutou Kouressy (Institute of Rural Economics, Niger Department of Agriculture …); and Francis Dide (Benin Weather Service).I am confident that the participation of the above individuals in the Conference …
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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change
Yohe, G.W. - 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
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