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Gini who? : the relationship between inequality perceptions and life satisfaction

Marchesi, Daniele; Nikolova, Milena; Angelini, Viola - 2024

satisfaction across 33 countries. Individuals who believe that inequality has increased in the previous 4 years are on average 8 … and changes into account does not alter the conclusions, suggesting that inequality perception matters for life … satisfaction above and beyond actual inequality. Our findings survive a battery of robustness checks, including an instrumental …

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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2014

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...

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Rhythms and cycles in happiness

Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte; Wilhelm, Markus - 2013

This study analyses time-dependent rhythms in happiness in three aspects. We show that the Sunday neurosis exists exclusively for men with a medium level of education and both men and women with high levels of education. Men with high levels of education may even experience a weekend neurosis....

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Rhythms and Cycles in Happiness

Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte; Wilhelm, Markus - Institut für Außenhandel und Wirtschaftsintegration, … - 2013

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Electricity supply preferences in Europe : evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2013

We use survey data for 139,517 individuals in 26 European Countries, 2002 - 2011, to estimate the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and production shares of various types of electricity generation. The estimated relationships are taken to represent preference relationships over...

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Electricity Supply Preferences in Europe: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2013

We use survey data for 139,517 individuals in 26 European Countries, 2002-2011, to estimate the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and production shares of various types of electricity generation. The estimated relationships are taken to represent preference relationships over...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435693

Observing traumatic events : indirect effects of flood shocks on well-being and preferences

Stein, Wiebke; Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2020

This paper investigates how witnessing adverse weather events affects individuals' perceptions and consequently their personal well-being. To identify potential exposure to a weather shock, we link satellite-based data on flooding to an extensive household panel survey from rural Southeast Asia....

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Living Standards Analysis Model: the first prototype

King, Anita - 2018

How do we understand the synergies and trade-offs of a given policy on area beyond that policy, such as the effect of housing on health and on income? How do we choose between policies in completely different areas, such as an education policy and a health policy? Treasury's Living Standards...

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A civil super-Manhattan project in nuclear research for a safer and prosperous world

Sornette, Didier - 2015

Humankind is confronted with a "nuclear stewardship curse'', facing the prospect of needing to manage nuclear products over long time scales in the face of the short-time scales of human polities. I propose a super Manhattan-type effort to rejuvenate the nuclear energy industry to overcome the...

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Les risques associés à l'énergie nucléaire et leurs perceptions

Etner, Johanna - In: Risques et incertitudes dans l'industrie de l'énergie, (pp. 1535-1562). 2006

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