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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020
Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble....
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Life satisfaction and material well-being of children in the UK
Knies, Gundi - 2012
Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …
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The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
van Praag, B.M.S; Frijters, Paul; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119784
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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435763
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...
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Why is satisfaction from pro-environmental behaviors increasing in costs? : insights from the rational-choice decision-error framework
Welsch, Heinz - 2023
(Finding 2). Finding 1 is at odds with rational choice theory's demand that marginal utility be equalized with marginal costs …
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Does Marriage Make People Happy, or Do Happy People Get Married?
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2005
' educational level have a negative effect on experienced life satisfaction …
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Monitoring subjective well-being : some new empirical evidence for Germany ; [paper prepared for the 33rd General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income...
Oltmanns, Erich; Braakmann, Albert; Schmidt, Joachim - 2014
What is subjective well-being influenced by? Since the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi a huge number of studies has raised this question - with partly different findings. In addition, international...
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The impact of victimisation on subjective well-being
Shannon, Matthew - 2021
This paper uses the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the relationship between victimisation and several measures of subjective well-being. Using person fixed effects models, I find that being attacked or insulted both significantly reduce well-being at the mean, with no significant...
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