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estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal. …
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estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021890
Studies using the Gini Index as a measure of income inequality have consistently found a positive and significant effect of the Gini on both happiness and life satisfaction. Two new measures used here – the ratio of persons in the lowest income decile relative to the number in the highest, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024608
The paper explores the non-material determinants of happiness. We go beyond the well-established result that individual ‘religiousness’ is positively correlated with happiness and look at a broader spiritual activity - time spent thinking about the meaning and purpose of life (MPL). We study...
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important and controversial question with respect to well-being: Do cognitive, hedonic and eudaimonic measures of well-being … happiness and life satisfaction. Second, someone with high standard ?hedonic? well-being (happiness or life satisfaction) is … likely to have high eudaimonic well-being as well (flourishing, vitality, resilience and functioning). In addition, the …
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We assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual´s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on life satisfaction for the subsample of individuals living...
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We assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual´s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on life satisfaction for the subsample of individuals living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800866
applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health … by the Stiglitz Report, we find that much of the variation in many well-being measures can indeed be captured well by the … hard indicators are still a reasonable and quite robust gauge of well-being of a country. And yet, we also see that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804581
applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health … by the Stiglitz Report, we find that much of the variation in many well-being measures can indeed be captured well by the … hard indicators are still a reasonable and quite robust gauge of well-being of a country. And yet, we also see that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833212
economists and policymakers should take into account when trying to promote personal and societal wellbeing. The wide array of … between economic development and human wellbeing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835062