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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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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010
consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379637
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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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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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417634
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902869
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
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Using life satisfaction and happiness data for environmental valuation : an experienced preference approach
Ferreira, Susana; Moro, Mirko; Welsch, Heinz - 2024
A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454771
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2010
consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325687
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Obesity and Happiness
Katsaiti, Marina-Selini - 2010
This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600913