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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

Wunder, Christoph; Wiencierz, Andrea; Schwarze, Johannes; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 1, pp. 154-167

This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the analysis shows a common, and quite similar,...

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Does subjective well-being dynamically adjust to circumstances?

Wunder, Christoph - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 3, pp. 750-752

This paper introduces a simple model to estimate the dynamic adjustment of subjective well-being that results from an updating of expectations in response to changing circumstances. Empirical evidence indicates that adjustment takes place within a relatively short window of time.

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A test for the convexity of human well-being over the life cycle: Longitudinal evidence from a 20-year panel

Van Landeghem, Bert - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 571-582

A huge cross-section literature, written by economists and others, argues that human well-being is U-shaped through the life cycle. In many cases this U-shape is robust (with a well-known exception the pattern evident in some U.S. data sets if few independent variables are included). However, a...

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What do happiness and health satisfaction data tell us about relative risk aversion?

Gandelman, Néstor; Hernández-Murillo, Rubén - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 39 (2013) C, pp. 301-312

In this paper we provide estimates of the coefficient of relative risk aversion using information on self-reports of subjective personal well-being from multiple datasets, including three cross-sectional surveys and two panel surveys, namely the Gallup World Poll, the European Social Survey, the...

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Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction

Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 78 (2011) 1, pp. 183-191

Economics implicitly assumes that the marginal utility of income is independent of an individual's personality. We show … that this is wrong. This is the first demonstration that there are strong personality–income interactions. In an analysis … use of financial incentives to influence behavior. In the future, public policy may benefit from being personality-specific. …

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Adaptation to Income over Time: A Weak Point of Subjective Well-Being

Wunder, Christoph - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 129 (2009) 2, pp. 269-281

This article holds the view that intertemporal comparisons of subjective well-being measures are only meaningful when the underlying standards of judgment are unaltered. This is a weak point of such measures. The study investigates the change in the satisfaction judgments resulting from...

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The Course of Subjective Well-Being over the Life Cycle

Landeghem, Bert G.M. Van - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 129 (2009) 2, pp. 261-267

This paper deals with the relationship between subjective well-being and ageing in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The baseline results confirm the U-shaped relationship between life satisfaction and age, which has been found in many case studies by economists and others. Furthermore,...

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How well do individuals predict their future life satisfaction? Evidence from panel data following a nationwide exogenous shock

Frijters, Paul; Greenwell, Harry; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; … - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 42 (2009) 4, pp. 1326-1346

expectations. Some evidence of micro-heterogeneity in the prediction errors is found by age and education. For West Germans, we …

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Does self-employment contribute to national happiness?

Harbi, Sana El; Grolleau, Gilles - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 5, pp. 670-676

Recent studies showed that self-employment impacts individual happiness either positively or negatively. Rather than considering the happiness effects at the individual level, we assess whether self-employment effects spread and impact the domestic happiness beyond the involved individuals. We...

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Happiness in Europe

Pedersen, Peder J.; Schmidt, Torben Dall - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 480-489

Data in the European Community Household Panel are used to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income utilizing also the panel...

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