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Este trabajo calcula por primera vez dos índices sintéticos para las Comunidades Autónomas españolas: uno de bienestar y otro de sostenibilidad. El punto de partida ha sido el Índice de la Buena Vida (Better Life Index, de la OCDE) y un Índice de Sostenibilidad (Happy Planet Index, basado...
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Using household survey data, we study the determinants of individual well-being in urban China, emphasizing particularly the role of income expectations. First, we find that individual well-being increases contemporaneously with own income and decreases with community's average income,...
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Air pollution constitutes one of the main environmental problems in many countries. This paper uses the life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation (LSA) to investigate whether individuals habituate to air pollution and if a potential habituation effect influences the marginal rate of...
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The well-being of a person is reflected in the language used. Building on 1,400 letters written by three famous music composers, I obtain well-being indices that span their lifetime. The validity of this methodology is shown by linking the indices with biographical information and through...
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During the most recent decades people in industrialised countries have reported both a stagnant or even declining subjective well-being, as Easterlin (1974) originally observed, and deterioration in their social and family bonds, as Putnam (2000) has claimed. The paper proposes an integrated...
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This study examines the role of socio-demographic determinants on individual’s level of happiness. Primary survey data … found to have insignificant effects on happiness. Several policy implications can be recommended based on the outcomes. …
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Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual’s experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...
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survey data to estimate a standard happiness regression augmented with people’s expectation about the future. Results suggest …
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of well-being and economic factors. More precisely, it tries to evaluate the decrease in happiness and life satisfaction … unemployment, inflation or income inequality. Such aggregate factors could impact individual happiness per se because they are … proposes an evaluation of the welfare cost of unemployment and inflation (in terms of happiness and life satisfaction), in each …
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The happiness literature provides evidence on various factors, other than money, that do seem to contribute to … individual happiness. As one explores the produced “happiness economics” literature, it is direct to understand the difficulty to … negative impact on happiness indicators. In order to add robustness to our results and to deal with endogeneity issues, this …
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