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Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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On the Relation between Income Inequality and Happiness : Do Fairness Perceptions Matter

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...

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Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

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Public Happiness in Japan : A Qualitative Approach

Sutter, Andrew J. - 2018

Could contemporary urban Japan provide a living example of the 18th Century Italian notion of public happiness? The question is by no means far-fetched. Daily life in Japan is rich in examples of "public happiness," as shown here through a number of anecdotes and examples. Yet Japan's...

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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...

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Commute time and subjective well-being in urban China

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015

Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the association between commute time and subjective well-being in a sample of 16- to 65-year-old employees in urban China. We find evidence that a longer commute time is associated with lower levels of both life...

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Traffic accident experience and subjective well-being

Andrén, Daniela; Tapper, Erik Johansson - 2022

individuals' life satisfaction unchanged when experiencing, directly or indirectly, a traffic accident. …'s subjective well-being unchanged after experiencing traffic accidents. The coefficients of the life satisfaction equation …, estimated with Swedish data collected in May 2020, indicated no statistically significant association between accident …

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Living Standards Analysis Model: the first prototype

King, Anita - 2018

How do we understand the synergies and trade-offs of a given policy on area beyond that policy, such as the effect of housing on health and on income? How do we choose between policies in completely different areas, such as an education policy and a health policy? Treasury's Living Standards...

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Using life satisfaction and happiness data for environmental valuation : an experienced preference approach

Ferreira, Susana; Moro, Mirko; Welsch, Heinz - 2024

A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...

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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...

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