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Climate and happiness in the tropics
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Siyaranamual, Martin D.; Ghina, … - 2016
Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from developing countries exist. Moreover, even though climate is among the most important input to human activities, only a handfull of studies explicitly associate it with...
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How city type, trust and technology affect corruption : a multilevel comparative study : ERSA 55th Congress
Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stepien, Paulina - 2015 - Submission 909 (extended abstract with results)
In this study we investigate how both local environment and individual characteristics explain incidence of corruption …. More specifically, we explore how city size, and residing in a capital city influence the two aspects of corruption … analyse the effects of local institutional trust (bridging), and community embedded trust (bonding), on incidence of …
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Eliciting time, risk, and social preferences : experimental evidence from India
Mishra, Aswini Kumar; Pradhan, Pratyush; Revankar, … - In: Critical perspIectives on emerging economies : an …, (pp. 95-113). 2021
, we conducted a survey of 614 subjects in India. Our results based on the correlations of positive reciprocity and time … preferences, trust and cognitive ability, and negative reciprocity and risk preferences suggest that Indians have different …
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Comparative analysis of the level of satisfaction with the financial situation in Romania and EU countries
Necula, Diana Maria - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 224-233). 2023
The paper analyzes the satisfaction regarding the financial situation in Romania compared to the rest of the member … Median Income, but also satisfaction regarding the financial situation, based on the latest statistical data available on the … semantic differential method, it was possible to evaluate the degree of satisfaction with the financial situation of the …
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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 … revenues. Similarly, the effect of political decentralization on the level of satisfaction with institutions also varies …
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Portuguese cities' happiness
Jesus, Diana; Lencastre, Inês; Pais, Marta; Salvador, … - 2015
Happiness is an aspiration of every human being, and can also be a measure of social progress. Yet can one say that citizens are happy? If they are not, what if anything can be done about it? (Helliwell, Layard, & Sachs, 2013, p. 3) Understanding cities and citizenship has become a common place...
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When place is too big : happy town and unhappy metropolis
Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam - 2015 - Draft: Monday 10th November, 2014
predict life satisfaction. This study concerns only the US, and results should not be generalized to other countries …
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Mandeville on charity schools : happiness, social order and the psychology of poverty
Pongiglione, Francesca; Tolonen, Mikko - In: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics : EJPE 9 (2016) 1, pp. 82-100
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The relationships between living conditions and life satisfaction of elderly people in Istanbul : 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association 26th-29th August 2014 i...
Berkoz, Lale; Yirmibesoclu, Funda - 2014
satisfaction for the elderly people are very important. Satisfaction is the sense of fulfillment resulting from meeting the needs … and demands. Life satisfaction refers to the individual's positive evaluation of his/her life as a whole. Life … satisfaction, in other words, subjective quality of life, is a major element of quality aging (TSI, 2004). Along with the health …
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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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