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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971047
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Parent transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children : a lifelong happiness divided?
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for "children" who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633740
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Parents transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children : a lifelong happiness dividend?
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656134
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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966917
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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859059
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Money does not buy happiness : or does it? ; a reassessment based on the combined effects of wealth, income and consumption
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wooden, Mark - In: Social indicators research : an international and … 87 (2008) 1, pp. 65-82
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003691843
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Do generous welfare states generate efficiency gains which counterbalance short run losses? : testing downside risk theory with economic panel data for the US, Germany and the Neth...
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - In: Social indicators research : an international and … 86 (2008) 2, pp. 337-354
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003677849
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Trajectories of life satisfaction : positive feedback loops may explain why life satisfaction changes in multi-year waves, rather than oscillating around a set-point
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2014
Long term panel data enable researchers to construct Life Satisfaction (LS) trajectories for individuals over time. In this paper we analyse the trajectories of respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel who recorded their LS for 20 consecutive years in 1991 - 2010. Previous research has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380533
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People typically experience extended periods of relative happiness or unhappiness due to positive feedback loops between LS and variables which are both causes and consequences of...
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 135 (2015) 1, pp. 97-108
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491467
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Towards a theory of life satisfaction accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016
An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change it. The most widely accepted theory in psychology - setpoint theory - focussed solely on stability. That theory is now regarded as inadequate since several national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502854