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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021

Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper … greatest impact on happiness of men and women. The findings suggest that relative perceptions have a large statistically …'s happiness is more valued by female respondents. Satisfaction with household compared to personal income has a larger effect on …

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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021

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From Preference to Happiness : Towards a More Complete Welfare Economics

Ng, Yew-Kwang - 2000

Welfare economics is incomplete as it analyzes preferences without going on to analyze welfare (or happiness) which is …, disruption has to be taxed/controlled directly at low costs. Recent evidence on happiness and quality of life also tends to …

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Do people seek to maximize their subjective well-being?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015

best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …

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Human well-being and in-work benefits : a randomized controlled trial

Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...

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Relative Rank and Life Satisfaction : Evidence from US Households

Brown, Gordon D. A. - 2017

We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a longitudinal study of a representative sample of the US population, to examine social rank effects on the relationship between life satisfaction and economic status. We examine the effects of income, home values, mortgage debts, financial...

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Happiness in Business or Law

Huang, Peter H. - 2015

This article provides a short introduction to recent happiness research and its applications to business or law that is … organized as follows. Section I briefly considers: (1) troubling and not so troubling reservations about happiness research, and … (2) how money and happiness are related. Section II concisely surveys two sets of applications of happiness research to …

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Well-Being and Economics

Angner, Erik - 2015

happiness is based on mental-state accounts, and the social-indicators / capability approach on objective-list accounts …. Moreover, it argues that at least standard economics and the economics of happiness are based on some utilitarian social …

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Chapter Twenty-Four. Freedom, Opportunity, and Well-Being

Foster, James E. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 687-728). 2011

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options offers a decision maker real opportunities to achieve. Three cases are investigated: no preferences, a single preference, and plural preferences. The three corresponding...

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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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