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Subjective Well-Being : Weather Matters; Climate Doesn't

Feddersen, John; Metcalfe, Robert; Wooden, Mark - 2012

We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … acquiring a mild disability. Utilizing two sources of variation in the cognitive complexity of satisfaction questions, we …

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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality : Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2005

-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed …

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Income comparisons among neighbours and life satisfaction in East and West Germany

Knies, Gundi - 2010

A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics in very tightly drawn...

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How Does Heterogeneity Shape the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health Satisfaction?

Jones, Andrew M.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2007

, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … heterogeneity in the impact of income on health satisfaction. Adjusting for unobserved heterogeneity accounts for the relationship …

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Income Comparisons Among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany

Knies, Gundi - 2010

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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...

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Wealth and happiness

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - In: Oxford review of economic policy 30 (2014) 1, pp. 92-108

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Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society

Knight, John B.; Gunatilaka, Ramani - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 82 (2012) 1, pp. 67-81

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The Easterlin Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...

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The Easterlin paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

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