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Pursuing Happiness
Schubert, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
individuals' self-determined 'pursuit' of happiness. We suggest to substantiate what it means to 'pursue' happiness, in particular … pursuit of happiness has interesting practical policy implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401178
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Money, Trust and Happiness in Transition Countries: Evidence from Time Series
Stefano, BARTOLINI; Malgorzata, MIKUCKA; Francesco, … - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2012
The evolution over time of subjective well-being (SWB) in transition countries exhibit some peculiarities: greater variations which are more strongly correlated with the trends of GDP relative to other countries. What is the possible role of social trust in predicting such variations? We compare...
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Happy for How Long? How Social Capital and GDP relate to Happiness over Time
Stefano, BARTOLINI; Francesco, SARRACINO - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011
What does predict the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We answer this question correlating cross country time series of subjective well-being with the time series of social capital and/or GDP. First, we adopt a bivariate methodology similar to the one used used by Stevenson and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647479
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Happy for How Long? How Social Capital and GDP relate to Happiness over Time
Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2011
What does predict the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We answer this question correlating cross country time series of subjective well-being with the time series of social capital and/or GDP. First, we adopt a bivariate methodology similar to the one used used by Stevenson and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367510
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Environment, Well-Being, and Experienced Preference
Welsch, Heinz; Ferreira, Susana - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 7 (2014) 3-4, pp. 205-239
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of subjective well-being data in environmental economics. This article discusses the conceptual underpinnings of using such data as a tool for preference elicitation and non-market valuation. Given the connection of those data to the notion of...
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Demand for Self Control: A model of Consumer Response to Programs and Products that Moderate Consumption
Berg, Nathan; Kim, Jeong-Yoo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Is it better to apply effort to increase personal consumption, or control what one wants? The model presented here provides a characterization of demand for self control, namely, its responsiveness to price and risk. Unlike most other models of self control, the model does not identify self...
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The Nonparametric Approach to Applied Welfare Analysis
Brown, Donald J.; Calsamiglia, Caterina - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2005
Changes in total surplus and deadweight loss are traditional measures of economic welfare. We propose necessary and sufficient conditions for rationalizing consumer demand data with a quasilinear utility function. Under these conditions, consumer surplus is a valid measure of consumer welfare....
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Molecular Genetics and Subjective Well-Being
Bartels, Meike; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cesarini, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is a major topic of research across the social sciences. Twin and family studies have found that genetic factors may account for as much as 30-40% of the variance in SWB. Here, we study genetic contributions to SWB in a pooled sample of ~11,500 unrelated,...
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Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective … well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …
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The effects of Economy, Values and Health on Happiness In Iran: the case of the Kish Island
Torshizian, Eilya; Mehrara, Mohsen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Increasing happiness of population as the ultimate goal has engaged economist’s interest in identifying, measuring and … theorizing based on the amount of influence of effective components on happiness. What makes this paper remarkable in contrast to … happiness is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with latent variables. Results do not confirm presence of the Easterlin paradox …
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