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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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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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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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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 answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...
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