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Direct and indirect effects of weather experiences on life satisfaction : which role for climate change expectations?
Osberghaus, Daniel; Kühling, Jan - 2014
This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning …. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of the heads of the households is only significant for heat waves; not for … weather experiences are quantified. It becomes apparent that the indirect effect is significant but small compared to the …
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Weather-related home damage and subjective well-being
Gunby, Nicholas; Coupé, Tom - In: Environmental and resource economics 84 (2023) 2, pp. 409-438
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor);  … - 2010
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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Global development and happiness : how can data on subjective wellbeing inform development theory and practice?
Kroll, Christian - 2013
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258037
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Economics growth and subjective well-being inequality in India : evidence from the world value surveys
Maya, K.; Kumar, Neeraj - In: The Indian journal of economics 100 (2019) 396, pp. 121-140
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...
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Better off? : distributional comparisons for ordinal data about personal well-being
Jenkins, Stephen - In: New Zealand economic papers 54 (2020) 3, pp. 211-238
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Mind the gap? : business cycles and subjective well-being
Hovi, Matti; Laamanen, Jani-Petri - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 16/18, pp. 1206-1209
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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