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Testing the Relationship Between Parents’ and Their Children’s Subjective Well-Being

Casas, Ferran; Coenders, Germà; González, Mònica; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 6, pp. 1031-1051

Casas et al. (J Happiness Stud 9(2):197–205, <CitationRef CitationID="CR8">2008</CitationRef>) found no significant relationship between paired answers given by parents and their 12–16-year-old children (N = 266) for a single-item scale on overall life satisfaction (OLS). However, a significant, but low (.19) parent–child...</citationref>

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The Benefits of Believing in Chance or Fate: External Locus of Control as a Protective Factor for Coping with the Death of a Spouse

Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful...

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Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet: The Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being

Connolly, Marie - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 14 (2013) 2, pp. 457-473

should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the weather on their estimates. In this paper, the responsiveness of well …-being to climate and transitory weather conditions is investigated by analyzing subjective well-being data collected in the … men to the weather, and life satisfaction decreases with the amount of rain on the day of the interview. Low temperatures …

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Subjective Well-Being: Weather Matters; Climate Doesn't

Metcalfe, Robert; Feddersen, John; Wooden, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … present evidence that weather bias arises because of the cognitive challenge of reporting life satisfaction. Consistent with …

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Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet: the Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being

Pray, Marie Connolly - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the weather on their estimates. In this paper, I investigate the … responsiveness of well-being to climate and transitory weather conditions by analyzing subjective well-being data collected in the … responsive than men to the weather, and that life satisfaction decreases with the amount of rain on the day of the interview. Low …

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Weather as a transient influence on survey-reported satisfaction with life

Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Local weather conditions experienced by survey respondents on the day of the interview are used to assess the size of …

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Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlbefinden in Deutschland: Studie zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators

Suntum, Ulrich van; Prinz, Aloys; Uhde, Nicole - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

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Zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators ("Glücks-BIP") für Deutschland

Suntum, Ulrich van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Trotz steigender Wirtschaftsleistung hat sich die Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland seit Beginn der 90er Jahre nicht erhöht, in Westdeutschland ist sie sogar gesunken. Mehr materieller Wohlstand bedeutet also nicht automatisch mehr Wohlstand im Sinne von Lebensglück. Was aber sind dann die...

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Social Capital, the Economy and Well-being

Helliwell, John - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, John Helliwell sets the scene for many of the papers that follow by providing an up-to-date and lucid survey of the literature on the impact of social capital on both the economy or economic performance and well-being. This latter term is closely related to the concept of social...

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Consumption, Happiness, and Climate Change

Cohen, Mark A.; Vandenbergh, Michael P. - 2008

In this article, we explore the implications of this literature for understanding the relationship between climate change policies and consumption. We identify a number of ways in which accounting for the implications of the new happiness literature could lead to laws and policies that influence...

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