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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011

Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...

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The distribution of economic well-being in the Netherlands, its evolution in the 1980s and the role of demographic change

Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Nelissen, Jan H. M. - In: Changing patterns in the distribution of economic …, (pp. 265-292). 2010

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Money does not buy happiness : or does it? ; a reassessment based on the combined effects of wealth, income and consumption

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wooden, Mark - In: Social indicators research : an international and … 87 (2008) 1, pp. 65-82

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Do generous welfare states generate efficiency gains which counterbalance short run losses? : testing downside risk theory with economic panel data for the US, Germany and the Neth...

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - In: Social indicators research : an international and … 86 (2008) 2, pp. 337-354

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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?

Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011

In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....

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Flexibility and security over the life course

Muffels, Ruud J. A. (contributor) - 2008

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Trajectories of life satisfaction : positive feedback loops may explain why life satisfaction changes in multi-year waves, rather than oscillating around a set-point

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2014

Long term panel data enable researchers to construct Life Satisfaction (LS) trajectories for individuals over time. In this paper we analyse the trajectories of respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel who recorded their LS for 20 consecutive years in 1991 - 2010. Previous research has...

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Flexibility and security : national social models in transitional labour markets

Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Crouch, Colin; Wilthagen, Ton - In: Transfer : European review of labour and research ; … 20 (2014) 1, pp. 99-114

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People typically experience extended periods of relative happiness or unhappiness due to positive feedback loops between LS and variables which are both causes and consequences of...

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 135 (2015) 1, pp. 97-108

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Towards a theory of life satisfaction accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change it. The most widely accepted theory in psychology - setpoint theory - focussed solely on stability. That theory is now regarded as inadequate since several national...

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