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Pursuing happiness
Schubert, Christian - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 65 (2012) 2, pp. 245-261
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Pursuing happiness
Schubert, Christian - 2012
individuals' self-determined "pursuit" of happiness. We suggest to substantiate what it means to "pursue" happiness, in particular … pursuit of happiness has interesting practical policy implications. -- subjective well-being ; happiness ; welfare economics …
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Pursuing Happiness
Schubert, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
individuals' self-determined 'pursuit' of happiness. We suggest to substantiate what it means to 'pursue' happiness, in particular … pursuit of happiness has interesting practical policy implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401178
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"Fair" welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes : subjective versus revealed preferences
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, preference heterogeneity can be inferred from the observation of individual choices (revealed...
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Nudging and Phishing : A Theory of Behavioral Welfare Economics
Jimenez-Gomez, David - 2018
Nudges, which are interventions that do not restrict choice, have become widespread in policy applications. I develop a general and tractable framework to analyze the welfare implications of nudges. In this framework, individuals suffer from internalities (their utility when choosing is...
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Knowledge Problem
Sunstein, Cass R. - 2014
In the modern regulatory state, there is a serious tension between two indispensable ideas. The first is that it is important to measure, both in advance and on a continuing basis, the effects of regulation on social welfare, usually through cost-benefit analysis. The second idea, attributable...
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Role models that make you unhappy : light paternalism, social learning and welfare
Cordes, Christian; Schubert, Christian - 2010
Behavioral (e.g. consumption) patterns of boundedly rational agents can lead these agents into learning dynamics that appear to be "wasteful" in terms of well-being or welfare. Within settings displaying preference endogeneity, it is however still unclear how to conceptualize well-being. This...
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308432
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people's forecast of their life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334546
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Economic approaches to understanding change in happiness
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2014
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective … well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …
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