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-2004 shows that income has only a minor effect on positive subjective well-being but a large effect on negative well …
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income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study …: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …
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income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study …: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …
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In the last decade, a number of experiments have stated that spending money on experiences rather than on material goods tends to make people happier. However, the experimental designs used to analyze the relationship between consumption and subjective well-being had several limitations: small...
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perceive well-being in competitive pressure situation, namely, relative income mobility, subjective mobility, relative income … position and subjective wealth position. We find that perception of changes in the relative income, wealth, and labour market … that the objective trends of income and income mobility are very important with respect to satisfaction, but how people …
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satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in comparison to income poverty. We find a negative and significant effect of … satisfaction. The impact we find is beyond the effect of mere income poverty. We classify measures of fuel poverty into several …
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The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
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The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334546
This paper studies whether pro-environmental consumption choices are consistent with utility maximization and what role the consumption behavior of reference persons and one's own past behavior play in this context. By combining data on individuals' pro-environmental consumption from a unique...
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(as a proxy of SWB) have identified strong relations with income, labour market status and health state. In this … literature review we try to be acquainted with and analyse the dynamic effect of income, health state (ill-being) and labour …. -- Subjective Well-being ; Relative Income ; Non-employment ; Ill-being ; Dynamic Panel Models …
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