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The asymmetric experience of positive and negative economic growth : global evidence using subjective well-being data
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; De Keulenaer, Femke - 2015
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are experienced. We find that measures of life satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498599
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth : Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2015
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are experienced. We find that measures of life satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025309
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth : Global Evidence using Subjective Well-Being Data
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2015
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are experienced. We find that measures of life satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032255
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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being
Graham, Carol - 2014
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039581
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Happiness, habits and high rank : comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009557657
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Happiness, habits and high rank : comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2011
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408713
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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility : An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
Clark, Andrew; Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A. - 2021
The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant over time despite sharp rises … also discuss the relation (or not) between happiness and utility and discuss some non-happiness research (behavioural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316988
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Information technologies and subjective well-being : does the internet raise material aspirations? ; conference paper
Lohmann, Steffen - 2013
material aspirations via fostering relative concerns in the society. The empirical findings shed further light on the income-happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344634
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Economic approaches to understanding change in happiness
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2014
freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348918
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Journalism of Social Sciences - Emphasis on the Study of Poverty in the World
Bento, Paulo F. R. L. - 2018
In this paper we analyze how Poverty and social sciences research, dedicated to poverty, are worked in journalism, using some cases as example. Journalism dedicated to the dissemination of info on research and results from scientific studies related to poverty has an important role of educating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168402