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Happiness Research: State and Prospects
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
This paper intends to provide an evaluation of where the economic research on happiness stands and in which interesting directions it might develop. First, the current state of the research on happiness in economics is briefly discussed. We emphasize the potential of happiness research in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627928
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Happiness Research: State and Prospects
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004
This paper intends to provide an evaluation of where the economic research on happiness stands and in which interesting directions it might develop. First, the current state of the research on happiness in economics is briefly discussed. We emphasize the potential of happiness research in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005226972
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750480
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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022
-related benefits that would have accrued if these vaccination requirements had been implemented as intended. Compared with the … vaccination rates observed in January 2022, we find that the mandates could have led to 15 million additional vaccinated … policymakers. In scenarios involving the emergence of a novel, more transmissible variant, against which vaccination and previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426321
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Increasing coverage of antiretroviral therapy and male medical circumcision in HIV hyperendemic countries : a cost-benefit analysis
Geldsetzer, Pascal; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; … - 2015
HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288526
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2010
The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of preferences which are not necessarily additively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748321
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2004
This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450654
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Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions Through a Local Government Vaccination Campaign : A Field Experiment on Psychological Ownership
Keppeler, Florian; Sievert, Martin; Jilke, Sebastian - 2021
psychological ownership to design a behaviorally-inspired local government vaccination campaign. We conducted a large-scale, cluster … get vaccinated. Findings suggest adding possessive pronouns, i.e., “YOUR vaccination”, can increase vaccination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215217
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Conditional Cash Lotteries Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
Barber, Andrew; West, Jeremy - 2021
Conditional cash lotteries (CCLs) provide people with opportunities to win monetary prizes only if they make specific behavioral changes. We conduct a case study of Ohio's Vax-A-Million initiative, the first CCL targeting COVID-19 vaccinations. Forming a synthetic control from other states, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214770
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Vanishing Vaccinations : Why Are So Many Americans Opting Out of Vaccinating Their Children?
Calandrillo, Steve - 2015
risks, the medical, social and economic benefits attained have led all 50 states to enact compulsory childhood vaccination … and hotly disputed link between immunizations and autism. The internet worsens fears regarding vaccination safety, as at … states now allow vaccination exemptions for religious reasons and a growing number provide "philosophical" opt-outs as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066065