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In debt but still happy? : examining the relationship between homeownership and life satisfaction
Will, Sebastian; Renz, Timon - 2022
We investigate the relationship between homeownership and life as well as housing satisfaction. Using panel data from … Germany, we find that compared to renting, owning a home positively impacts housing satisfaction. Contrarily, we find no … significant effects on life satisfaction in the long-term. Analysing short-term effects in an event-study design, we show that …
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The ugly truth about social welfare payments and households' subjective well-being
Adhikari, Tamanna; Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie - 2021
Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate poverty, but investigating their effect on well-being is sparse. We investigate the relationship...
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On well-being of households in Japan and post-disaster reinstatement
Shukla, Jyoti; Yukutake, Norifumi; Tiwari, Piyush - 2021
household panel survey data (JHPS/KHPS) wherein households report their satisfaction with overall life and its five dimensions … resources, personal characteristics and familial characteristics of households) that constitute households' satisfaction across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425274
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Household sector carbon pricing, revenue rebating, and subjective well-being : a dollar is not a dollar
Welsch, Heinz - 2024
Carbon pricing is on the rise, as evidenced, for example, by the European Commission's proposal to extend the trade in carbon emissions to the building and transport sectors. An important feature of carbon pricing is that it generates revenues which can be rebated to households. Rebating the...
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Differences in subjective well-being within households : an analysis of married and cohabiting couples in South Africa
Posel, Dorit; Casale, Daniela - In: African review of economics & finance : AREF : (a … 7 (2015) 1, pp. 32-52
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The intrinsic value of agency : the case of Indonesia
Fernandez, Antonia; Della Giusta, Marina; Kambhampati, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 70 (2015), pp. 92-107
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Direct and indirect effects of weather experiences on life satisfaction : which role for climate change expectations?
Osberghaus, Daniel; Kühling, Jan - 2014
This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of...
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Greenhouse gas emissions and subjective well-being : an analysis of Swedish households
Andersson, David; Nässén, Jonas; Larsson, Jörgen; … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 102 (2014), pp. 75-82
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Do large numbers of Americans struggle to make ends meet?
Thies, Clifford F. - In: The journal of private enterprise 36 (2021) 2, pp. 67-75
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Pooling and sharing income within households : a satisfaction approach
Elsas, Susanne - 2013
satisfaction. Concerning the relation between income sharing and income pooling, I account not only for the dominance of pooling …
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