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The bigger the better? Evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2005
This paper empirically analyzes the question whether government involvement in the economy is conducive or detrimental … neoclassical economic theory, which predicts that government plays an unambiguously positive role for individuals’ quality of life … regulation, thereby harming voters’ quality of life. Our results show that life satisfaction decreases with higher government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753109
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The bigger the better? : Evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - In: Public choice 130 (2007) 3/4, pp. 267-292
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003430182
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The bigger the better? : evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2005
This paper empirically analyzes the question whether government involvement in the economy is conducive or detrimental … neoclassical economic theory, which predicts that government plays an unambiguously positive role for individuals’ quality of life … regulation, thereby harming voters’ quality of life. Our results show that life satisfaction decreases with higher government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003214381
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Benefit or burden? : Unraveling the effect of economic freedom on subjective well-being
Gehring, Kai - 2012
Does economic freedom increase the utility of an average citizen? Public choice theory in particular has emphasized the shortcomings of governments and voting processes, and the advantages of relying on markets and individual decision making. However, an increasing amount of people are refusing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569583
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Happy moves? : assessing the link between life satisfaction and emigration intentions
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, policymakers across the world should be interested in attracting and retaining happy and life-satisfied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515268
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Issues in the estimation of dynamic happiness models : a comment on "Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?"
Piper, Alan T.; Pugh, Geoff - 2016
This paper offers methodological comments on a recent (November 2014) Economic Journal article. The comments consider its use of a dynamic model - the inclusion of a lagged dependent variable - and its approach to estimation. By way of critique, the authors highlight general issues regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419154
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Happiness and the emigration decision : happy people are an asset to society, and happiness may be a determinant of emigration
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2014
Happy people are healthier and more creative, productive, and sociable. Because of these positive effects of happiness, it is in the interest of countries to attract and retain happy people. With respect to the decision to migrate, the central question becomes whether people who are happier and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421971
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Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John : the impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being
Binder, Martin - 2015
This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285402
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Volunteering and life satisfaction : a closer look at the hypothesis that volunteering more strongly benefits the unhappy
Binder, Martin - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 874-885
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286033
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Marriage and subjective well-being in Ghana
Addai, Isaac; Opoku-Agyeman, Chris; Amanfu, Sarah K. - In: African review of economics & finance : AREF : (a … 7 (2015) 1, pp. 53-79
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374629