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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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[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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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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A decomposition of multidimensional economic well-being : an application to Spanish regions

Díaz Caro, Carlos; Pérez Mayo, Jesús - 2015 - (Early draft version)

The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...

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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach

Okuyama, Naoko - 2017

Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...

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Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction : empirical evidence for U.S. hurricanes

Berlemann, Michael; Eurich, Marina - 2020

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...

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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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