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Subjective and physiological measures of well-being: an exploratory analysis using birth-cohort data
Andrén, Daniela; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2017
birth and early-life conditions on adulthood outcomes. These latter include both well-being and the stress hormone cortisol …. Employment and marital status are important adult determinants of well-being. Log family income and absence from school also … predict adult well-being, although their importance falls when controlling for adult and birth characteristics. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654426
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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data
Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018
To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this … link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British … adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131233
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Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2013
answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study are used for three cohorts interviewed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329187
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The Effects of Social Media Use on the Well-Being of Users. The Wonderland of HaikuJAM
Andrén, Daniela - 2019
Internet usage in general and social networking platforms (SNPs) in particular have dramatically changed the way we spend our time. A relevant question is how this change in time-use affected the well-being of people in general and younger people in particular. We answer this question by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654450
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The Long-Lasting Effects of Family and Childhood on Adult Wellbeing: Evidence from British Cohort Data
Flèche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018
To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this … link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British … adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796375
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Explaining well-being over the life cycle : a look at life transitions during young adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2013
answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study are used for three cohorts interviewed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229927
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Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study are used for three cohorts interviewed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884361
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Happiness, growth, and public policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293153
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Income, happiness, and the disutility of labor
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009
We reexamine the claim that the effect of income on subjective well-being suffers from a systematic downward bias if one ignores that higher income is typically associated with more work effort. We analyze this claim using German panel data, controlling for individual unobserved heterogeneity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299165
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The decline of relational goods in the production of well-being?
Prinz, Aloys; Bünger, Björn - 2009
In this paper, we attempt to show why the importance of relational goods compared to conventional goods and status goods threatens to decline in contemporary societies. In our point of view, the development of the relative significance of these three types of goods is not a consequence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307135