<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...</span>

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population interms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individualeconomic security, in particular job security, in workers’ well-being by exploiting sectorspecificinstitutional differences in...

In many countries, TV viewers have access to more and more TVchannels. We study whether people can cope with this and watch the amount of TVthey find optimal for themselves or whether they are prone to over-consumption. Wefind that heavy TV viewers do not benefit, but instead report lower life...