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Rising waters, falling well-being : the effects of the 2013 East German flood on subjective well-being

Fernando, Sachintha; Kolb, Katharina; Wunder, Christoph - 2025

significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% fall from pre-flood levels …This paper employs a panel event study design to examine the causal effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany … on subjective well-being. We merge geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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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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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020

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People do not adapt : new analyses of the dynamic effects of own and reference income on life satisfaction

Kaiser, Caspar F. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 177 (2020), pp. 494-513

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Does terrorism reduce life satisfaction?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 13/15, pp. 893-896

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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 and Wealth Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 24-30, 2014]

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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A capabilities approach to housing and quality of life : the evidence from Germany

Coates, Dermot; Anand, Paul; Norris, Michelle - 2015

capabilities and activities associated with housing have a detectable impact on housing satisfaction, and whether housing … satisfaction contributes to overall life satisfaction. Our results indicate that housing satisfaction is indeed related to overall … life satisfaction and that a wide range of different kinds of variables appear to impact housing satisfaction itself. The …

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The impact of atmosphere in the city on subjective well-being of Rio de Janeiro residents during (vs. before) the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Schlegel, Andrea; Pfitzner, Rebecca; Koenigstorfer, Joerg - In: Journal of sport management : the official journal of … 31 (2017) 6, pp. 605-619

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Do advertisements with a social message elevate subjective well-being? : an examination of empirical associations

Manzoor, Iqra; Ul Haq, Zia - In: Business and society review : journal of the W. Michael … 128 (2023) 3, pp. 488-514

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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