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Of ever becoming : a design-based research study on devising intentional challenge interventions for personal growth
Kessler, Alexandra - 2021
four-step intervention following the devised approach could assist taking on challenge and using it as a vehicle for … comprising 256 participants currently in a context posing a challenge. Within each workshop, attendees take part in the four …-step process to clarify their status quo and devise an intentional challenge. Participants report improvements in their well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432045
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Trading up the happiness ladder
Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel - 2012
How globalization affects happiness is highly disputed. Several studies use an index that amalgamates globalization's different dimensions into a single variable. Unlike previous studies and in order to better illuminate its facets, we adopt a disaggregated perspective on trade (policy) data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292651
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Youth unemployment in Greece: Measuring the challenge
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25
A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper … analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional definition of "youth" is the 16-24 age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409613
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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600914
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Subjective Well-Being, Politics and Political Economy
Frey, Bruno S. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 147 (2011) 4, pp. 397-415
Happiness research has significantly extended our knowledge about the factors determining individual well-being. Several prominent scholars concluded that governments should engage in maximizing happiness. This approach is based on a technocratic notion that politicians are omniscient benevolent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933270
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Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being: evidence from the USA
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2010
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions - asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel - such as how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4? Yet there is little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269621
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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269638
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Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007
We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271880
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Fairly satisfied : economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
O'Connell, Michael F. - 2004
Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475682
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Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 145 Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
A large empirical literature has debated the U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in one hundred and forty-five countries, including one hundred and nine developing countries, controlling for education, marital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206809