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Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

choice analyses can inform and inspire happiness research on issues related to public policy. In particular, happiness … democratic competition. However, the happiness approach also has clear limitations if it is understood as a decision rule for … good policy and the interaction between citizens and the government is reduced to monitoring reported happiness. …

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Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective

Stutzer, Alois - 2019

This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...

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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...

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Happiness, growth, and public policy

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013

employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world. …

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The earned income tax credit, health, and happiness

Boyd-Swan, Casey; Herbst, Chris M.; Ifcher, John; … - 2013

depression symptomatology, an increase in self-reported happiness, and improved self-efficacy relative to their childless …

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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

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Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is there any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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