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The impact of local shocks on well-being : only a matter of perception?
Stein, Wiebke; Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2018
GIS data on local flood shocks to an extensive household sample from rural Southeast Asia. This allows us to contrast … flood shock, without any direct impact on a household's material well-being, can be sufficient to affect subjective well-being. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913317
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Observing traumatic events : indirect effects of flood shocks on well-being and preferences
Stein, Wiebke; Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2020
personal well-being. To identify potential exposure to a weather shock, we link satellite-based data on flooding to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423509
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897543
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903197
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662775
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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020
Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322174
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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383909
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A happy choice : wellbeing as the goal of government
Frijters, Paul; Clark, Andrew E.; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180850
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A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government
Frijters, Paul; Clark, Andrew E.; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129995
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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/10013502264