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Is there a "dead-anyway" effect in willingness to pay for risk reduction?

Breyer, Friedrich; Grabka, Markus M. - 2001

satisfaction and exposure to risk of dying. Application of the test using two sets of survey data from Germany and Australia … Deutschland und Australien ergibt keine Bestätigung für den von Pratt und Zeckhauser behaupteten Effekt. …

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National wealth and the subjective well-being of nations

Engelbrecht, Hans-Jürgen - In: Wealth(s) and subjective well-being, (pp. 325-351). 2019

This chapter explores links between national wealth and subjective well-being (SWB) at the macro-level for a sample of 26 OECD countries in 2005. The national wealth data have been developed in the context of the debate on sustainability. They are from two alternative sources. After discussing...

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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...

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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Layard, Richard - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

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