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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2003
goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261920
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A Multidimensional Analysis of Adaptation in a Developing Country Context
Barr, Abigail; Clark, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
also at educational and health aspirations.  Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the …Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income.  This finding … is consistent with the adaptation hypothesis - the notion that individual aspirations adjust to reflect personal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004220
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A Multidimensional Analysis of Adaptation in a Developing Country Context
Barr, Abigail; Clark, David - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2007
educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own …Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income. This finding is … consistent with the adaptation hypothesis - the notion that individual aspirations adjust to reflect personal circumstances and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642383
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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320008
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Testing Theories of Happiness
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
understanding of utility in economics. Here, we study the introduction of income aspirations in individuals’ utility functions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627769
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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007-10: Or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013
of our analyses is on the pattern of life, job and health satisfaction over time and the influence of unemployment rates … more satisfied with their lives, jobs and health when unemployment is rising around them. At the same time, the overall …. Interestingly, we get similar though somewhat weaker results when looking at job and health satisfaction. Hence, though the direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322347
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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation
Humpert, Stephan - 2013
memberships of political, welfare, health or more leisure time orientated groups. These activities have different impacts on male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333509
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296648
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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007 - 10 : or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013
of our analyses is on the pattern of life, job and health satisfaction over time and the influence of unemployment rates … more satisfied with their lives, jobs and health when unemployment is rising around them. At the same time, the overall …. Interestingly, we get similar though somewhat weaker results when looking at job and health satisfaction. Hence, though the direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128239
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Gender Differences in Life Satisfaction and Social Participation
Humpert, Stephan - 2013
memberships of political, welfare, health or more leisure time orientated groups. These activities have different impacts on male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858061