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Direct and indirect effects of weather experiences on life satisfaction : which role for climate change expectations?

Osberghaus, Daniel; Kühling, Jan - 2014

This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning …. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of the heads of the households is only significant for heat waves; not for … weather experiences are quantified. It becomes apparent that the indirect effect is significant but small compared to the …

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Consumption smoothing and the welfare cost of uncertainty

Alem, Yonas; Colmer, Jonathan - 2018

Separating the effects of uncertainty from realised events, and identifying the welfare effects of uncertainty, present a number of empirical challenges. Combining individuallevel panel data from rural Ethiopia with high-resolution meteorological data, we introduce a new proxy for income...

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Gunby, Nicholas; Coupé, Tom - 2021

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Reversing the question : does happiness affect consumption and savings behavior?

Guven, Cahit - 2009

I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest that happier people save more, spend less, and...

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor); … - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...

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Happy moves? : assessing the link between life satisfaction and emigration intentions

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015

It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, policymakers across the world should be interested in attracting and retaining happy and life-satisfied...

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Do methodical traps lead to wrong development strategies for welfare : a multilevel approach considering heterogeneity across industrialized and developing countries

Puntscher, Sibylle; Walde, Janette F.; Tappeiner, Gottfried - 2016

Subjective well-being (SWB) is becoming increasingly important as welfare concept in both scientific research and politics, as it comprises additional welfare aspects compared to the GDP per capita. Consequently, it becomes important to explicitly identify its driving forces and clarify still...

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Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John : the impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being

Binder, Martin - 2015

This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...

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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015

The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...

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". . . Do it with joy!" : subjective well-being outcomes of working in non-profit organizations

Binder, Martin - 2015

Working in non-profit organizations has been shown to be good for individuals' satisfaction with their jobs despite lower incomes. This paper explores the impact of nonprofit work on life satisfaction more general for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and finds a significant positive...

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