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Putting subjective well-being to use for ex-ante policy evaluation
Jara, H. Xavier; Schokkaert, Erik - 2016
income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed … in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584107
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act medicaid expansion on subjective well-being
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019
significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119022
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The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-Being
Kim, Seonghoon - 2019
significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861316
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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban
Petilliot, René - 2018
life satisfaction of the total population and the subpopulation of drinkers, while life satisfaction of nondrinkers is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888440
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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban
Petilliot, René - 2018
life satisfaction of the total population and the subpopulation of drinkers, while life satisfaction of nondrinkers is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897296
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Caring for carers? : the effect of public subsidies on the wellbeing of unpaid carers
Costa-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; Vilaplana Prieto, … - 2022
personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of an increase in the well-being (happiness) of unpaid carers after the … introduction of FPC. Our estimates suggest economically relevant improvements in the happiness (12pp increase in subjective … larger among women and non-actively employed caregivers (17pp increase in happiness). Estimates are not driven by selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255977
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When to release the lockdown? : a wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2020
It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance many considerations (as with any decision). Often the different considerations appear incommensurable so that only the roughest of judgements can be made. For example, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207440
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Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction : evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data
Neugebauer, Martin; Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; … - 2023
, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with … satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437912
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
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The effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the mental health and subjective wellbeing of workers: an event study based on high-frequency panel data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … geringerem Maße für Indikatoren des Wohlbefindens in bestimmten Lebensbereichen, wie die Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit und mit der … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …
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