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Do people choose what makes them happy and how do they decide at all? : a theoretical inquiry

Scheuer, Niklas - 2020

We develop a theoretical model that jointly explains optimal choices and happiness. We work with constant elasticity of … substitution functions for utility and happiness. Employing a choice framework, individuals are confronted with two options. When … there exists a trade-off, we determine parametric conditions for which individual happiness and utility coincide as well as …

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When place is too big : happy town and unhappy metropolis

Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam - 2015 - Draft: Monday 10th November, 2014

well-being (happiness) by size (population) of a place to find out when a place is too big. The answer is somewhere between …

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Ozone pollution, health and well-being

Rechlitz, Julia; Sarmiento, Luis; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2019

This paper evaluates the effect of ozone pollution on individuals' subjective health satisfaction and well-being, allowing us to capture both direct and indirect effects of ozone pollution on adults. Specifically, we focus on differences between households with and without children. We combine...

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Decentralization, subjective well-being and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2012

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

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Sitting in the same boat : subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event

Fluhrer, Svenja; Schindler, Kati - 2021

How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their reference group on life satisfaction. We do so by examining...

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Political economy of happiness

Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 28/30, pp. 4205-4211

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Can an evidential account justify relying on preferences for well-being policy?

Hersch, Gil - In: The journal of economic methodology 22 (2015) 3, pp. 280-291

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Nonhomothetic preferences and rent sharing in an open economy

Egger, Hartmut; Habermeyer, Simone - 2019

We develop a framework for studying how differences in the level and/or dispersion of per-capita income affect trade structure and welfare in a two-country model. Thereby, we embed nonhomothetic preferences into a home-market model with two sectors of production and one input factor. We...

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Study on consumer preferences towards vegetables

Necula, Diana Maria; Bădan, Daniela Nicoleta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 135-141). 2020

Vegetables play an important role in human nutrition, as they have a high content of nutrients. In the last five years, there has been a tendency to increase the consumption of vegetables among Romanians, this being attributed to the increase of the living standard, but also to the reorientation...

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[Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with 'subjective' indicators for human and social capital]

Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens … - 2015

Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...

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