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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308432
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334546
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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021
Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper … greatest impact on happiness of men and women. The findings suggest that relative perceptions have a large statistically …'s happiness is more valued by female respondents. Satisfaction with household compared to personal income has a larger effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508051
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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021
Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper … greatest impact on happiness of men and women. The findings suggest that relative perceptions have a large statistically …'s happiness is more valued by female respondents. Satisfaction with household compared to personal income has a larger effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520508
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Do people seek to maximize their subjective well-being?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376247
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118051
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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation
Humpert, Stephan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142
The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346726
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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014 - This version: January 2014
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252812
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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556229