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Putting subjective well-being to use for ex-ante policy evaluation
Jara, H. Xavier; Schokkaert, Erik - 2016
income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed … in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584107
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The Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and subjective well-being : have the self-employed suffered more due to hours and income reductions?
Yue, Wei; Cowling, Marc - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 39 (2021) 2, pp. 93-108
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485554
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Happiness and alleviation of income poverty impacts of an unconditional cash transfer programme using a subjective well-being approach
Kilburn, Kelly; Handa, Sudhanshu; Angeles, Gustavo; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603969
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which … has been rising in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322884
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 - we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the … slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising … in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325714
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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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The effects of the Affordable Care Act medicaid expansion on subjective well-being
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019
significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119022
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179654
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The (subjective) well-being cost of fiscal policy shocks
Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Fall, Mamour - 2020
Do discretionary spending cuts and tax increases hurt social well-being? To answer this question, we combine subjective well-being data covering over half a million of individuals across 13 European countries, with macroeconomic data on fiscal consolidations. We find that fiscal consolidations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170083
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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban
Petilliot, René - 2018
life satisfaction of the total population and the subpopulation of drinkers, while life satisfaction of nondrinkers is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888440