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Empirical analysis of life satisfaction in German Benedictine monasteries
Janotík, Tomáš - 2013
happiness research in economics. A dataset of 154 Benedictine nuns is analyzed. The main objective is to identify the most … important determinants of happiness of Benedictines and to empirically evaluate the hypothesis that they have very high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411004
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Happiness in the dual society of urban China:Hukou identity, horizontal inequality and heterogeneous reference
Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - 2008
between migrants and urban residents-affects individual happiness. The main results are as follows. First, migrants suffer … migrants, and they also favor higher relative income among urban residents. Fourth, 'born?urban residents have lower happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313370
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662483
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Benefit or burden? : Unraveling the effect of economic freedom on subjective well-being
Gehring, Kai - 2012
effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569583
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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372528
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Do people seek to maximize their subjective well-being?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376247
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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010
consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379637
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Relative income and life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants : the impact of a collectivistic culture
Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2015
This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309015
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Competition and well-being
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004
We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335225
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Does consuming more make you happier? : evidence from Chinese panel data
Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346779