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Pro-environmental norms and subjective well-being : panel evidence from the UK

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin; Welsch, Heinz - 2019

relationship between holding a green self-image and life satisfaction in the UK. Focusing on (sub-national) regions as the unit of … reference, we investigate if and how the individual-level greenness-satisfaction relationship varies with measures of the … norm. Two key findings emerge from our analysis. First, life satisfaction is negatively related to the regional-level mean …

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The impact of local shocks on well-being : only a matter of perception?

Stein, Wiebke; Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2018

This paper investigates how witnessing adverse events affects individuals' perceptions and consequently their personal subjective well-being. In order to do so, we compare material well-being dynamics with changes in subjective well-being. We link GIS data on local flood shocks to an extensive...

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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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Using life satisfaction and happiness data for environmental valuation : an experienced preference approach

Ferreira, Susana; Moro, Mirko; Welsch, Heinz - 2024

A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...

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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010

type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables …

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015 - Substantially rev. version

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...

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Traffic accident experience and subjective well-being

Andrén, Daniela; Tapper, Erik Johansson - 2022

's subjective well-being unchanged after experiencing traffic accidents. The coefficients of the life satisfaction equation … experience and life satisfaction. This result is in line with the extensive empirical research on hedonic adaptation that … individuals' life satisfaction unchanged when experiencing, directly or indirectly, a traffic accident. …

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