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Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...
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Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
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Using life satisfaction as a direct measure of individual utility has become popular in the empirical economic … satisfaction a volatile concept that is affected by minor changes in life circumstances? Or is it a reliable measure of personal … happiness? This paper will analyze the impact of a catastrophe, namely the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl, on life …
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happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered …
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Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
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