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Relative Income and Subjective Wellbeing : Intra-National and Inter-National Comparisons by Settlement and Country Type
Grimes, Arthur - 2015
spatial equilibrium in life satisfaction. Our results indicate that each individual government that wishes to raise the life … satisfaction of its residents still needs to boost those residents' incomes in order to raise their subjective wellbeing. However … satisfaction stays stable despite rising global incomes …
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What can economists learn from happiness research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001
some of the consequences for economic policy and for economic theory. …
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being...
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The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
van Praag, B.M.S; Frijters, Paul; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119784
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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435763
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326415
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Scitovsky's The Joyless Economy and the economics of happiness
Pugno, Maurizio - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 21 (2014) 2, pp. 278-303
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The shadow prices of voluntary caregiving : using panel data of well-being to estimate the cost of informal care
McDonald, Rebecca; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2018
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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Subjective well-being, income, and ethnicity inSlovakia
Želinský, Tomáš - 2021
that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012595931