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Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2000

determinants of life satisfaction. However, one should not leap to the conclusion that happiness should be maximised, as was … approach, such as reflected in the theory of democratic economic policy …

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Explaining the income-distribution puzzle in happiness research : theory and evidence

Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2012

per-capita income as at the heart of the matter. Our theory is backed by empirical evidence on OECD data: in low …

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Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2006

The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. One possible answer is that human development...

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Revisiting the evidence for a cardinal treatment of ordinal variables

Schröder, Carsten; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - 2015

Well-being (i.e., satisfaction, happiness) is a latent variable, impossible to observe directly. Hence, questionnaires …

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Scitovsky's The Joyless Economy and the economics of happiness

Pugno, Maurizio - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 21 (2014) 2, pp. 278-303

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[Rezension von: Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois, Happiness and economics, how the economy and institutions affect [human] well-being]

Lane, R. E. - In: Journal of economics 78 (2003) 2, pp. 196-199

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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2013

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the assumption of ordinal...

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Does Marriage Make People Happy, or Do Happy People Get Married?

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2005

' educational level have a negative effect on experienced life satisfaction …

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The shadow prices of voluntary caregiving : using panel data of well-being to estimate the cost of informal care

McDonald, Rebecca; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2018

This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...

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