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Activity, time, and subjective happiness : an analysis based on an hourly web survey
Sakawa, Hideaki; Ōtake, Fumio; Tsutsui, Yoshirō - 2015
This paper investigates how people's happiness depends on their current activities and on time. We conducted an hourly web survey, in which 70 students reported their happiness every hour on one day every month from December 2006 to February 2008. This method is an extension of the experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476226
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How Much Should We Trust Life Satisfaction Data? Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey
Nikolova, Elena - 2014
We analyse responses to two similar life satisfaction questions asked during the same interview for each respondent in … differ significantly. Older and less healthy respondents show systematically lower levels of self-reported satisfaction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044335
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What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Debnam Guzman, Jakina; Heffetz, Ori; … - 2021
answering commonly used—life satisfaction, happiness, ladder—and new SWB questions. We find that respondents’ self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241698
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The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
Krueger, Alan B.; Schkade, David - 2021
This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect … weeks apart is 0.64, which is slightly higher than the correlation of life satisfaction (r=0.59). Correlations between … income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317138
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Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2017
Many in both government and academia are showing renewed interest in developing new measures of national well-being. A new measure that goes “beyond GDP” to comprehensively capture non-market goods could be a useful supplement to traditional economic indicators for guiding policy and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965323
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Asking about Changes in Happiness in a Daily Web Survey
Tsutsui, Yoshiro; Ohtake, Fumio - 2011
This paper investigates whether the level of happiness and integrated process of changes in happiness are the same. Using the daily data of two waves of four and six months each, we found that the level of happiness is stationary, whereas the integrated process of changes is non-stationary with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179592
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372485
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Survey design and the determinants of subjective wellbeing : an experimental analysis
Holford, Angus J.; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2015
We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of … and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, mode of interviewing, and location of … questions within the interview. We find significant evidence of an influence of interview mode and question design on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467804
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Are more equal societies happier? : subjective well-being, income inequality, and redistribution
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2013
Using four waves of the European Social Survey, we analyze the association of income inequality and redistribution with subjective well-being. Our results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, while reduction of inequality has a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764556
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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2014
Using four waves of the European Social Survey (179,273 individuals from 29 countries) the authors analyze the association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357364