Similar Search Results

The Effect of Subsidized Employment on Happiness

Crost, Benjamin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

While a large body of evidence suggests that unemployment and self-reported happiness are negatively correlated, it is not clear whether this reflects a causal effect of unemployment on happiness and whether subsidized employment can increase the happiness of the unemployed. To close this gap,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147484

Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet: the Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being

Pray, Marie Connolly - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

More and more economists and politicians are advocating the use of comprehensive measures of well-being, on top of the usual national accounting measures, to assess the welfare of populations. Researchers using subjective well-being data should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150031

Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?

Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we address the question of how much of adult life satisfaction is predicted by childhood traits, parental characteristics and family socioeconomic status. Given the current focus of many national governments on measuring population well-being, and renewed focus on effective policy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151015

Do Danes and Italians Rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual-Specific Scale Biases

ANGELINI, V.; CAVAPOZZI, D.; CORAZZINI L.; PACCAGNELL O. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

Self-reported life satisfaction is highly heterogeneous across similar countries. This phenomenon can be largely explained by the di¤erent scales and benchmarks adopted by individuals when evaluating themselves. We use cross-sectional data on the population aged 50 and over in ten European...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193293

Can Religion Insure against Aggregate Shocks to Happiness? The Case of Transition Countries

Popova, Olga - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2010

This paper focuses on the effects of reforms and happiness in transition economies. previous literature suggest that religiousness insures happiness against individual stressful life events, such as unemployment, disability, or marital separation. I estimate an econometric model to study if...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752381

Wie hängen familiäre Veränderungen und das mütterliche Wohlbefinden mit der frühkindlichen Entwicklung zusammen?

Berger, Eva M.; Peter, Frauke H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 79 (2010) 3, pp. 27-44

Research in educational economics has shown that parental quality explains a large proportion of the variance in early childhood development. This paper uses the representative SOEP data to study the connection between early childhood development and objective as well as subjective indicators...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752606

The effects of information asymmetry and government size on happiness: A case study from Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper uses individual-level data from Japan (2003) to examine the effects of government size and the disclosure of … official government information on happiness. The major findings are as follows. (1) Disclosure of official information is … positively associated with the happiness of workers, but not with that of non-workers. (2) Government size has a positive effect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756506

Beyond the Joneses: inter-country income comparisons and happiness

Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Giachin, Elena - Econometica - 2010

Our paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income countries have generated progressively more negative feelings on a large sample of individuals in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763423

Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764827

Income, Motivation, and Satisfaction with Life: An Empirical Analysis

Salinas-Jiménez, Maria; Artés, Joaquín; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 11 (2010) 6, pp. 779-793

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008775600