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Relative status and satisfaction
Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315482
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Well-being and the complexity of poverty: A subjective well-being approach
Rojas, Mariano - 2004
This investigation studies human well-being from a subjective well-being approach. On the basis of a Mexican database the investigation shows that there is a weak relationship between subjective well-being and indicators of well-being such as income and consumption. Therefore, subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284832
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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2012
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291356
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325983
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601035
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274729
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277039
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Competition and well-being: Does market competition make people unhappy?
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
enlarges the happiness differences caused by cleavages in socio-economic position. Our results also suggest that competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281211
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The structure of happiness: A vector autoregressive approach
Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - 2011
autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different Big Five personality traits. Personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281848
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Going beyond average Joe's Happiness: Using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - 2010
distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281851