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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Subjective Economic Well-Being in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - 2002
well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119288
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Happiness and growth the world over : time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824943
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The impact of climate on life satisfaction
Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2010
We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values … significantly lower levels of life satisfaction. This finding is robust to a wide variety of model specifications. Using our results … African countries, but modest gains for Northern Europe. -- Climate ; climate change ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey …
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Happiness and economic growth : the evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
initial level, life satisfaction has not improved. -- happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; income ; long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699443
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Happiness, growth, and public policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
. -- happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; economic growth ; safety net policies ; developed countries ; transition …
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Economic approaches to understanding change in happiness
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2014
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people are not indifferent to adverse living conditions when...
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