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Life satisfaction and endogenous aspirations
Bertoni, Marco; Corazzini, Luca - 2015
on subjective well-being. We match individual-level data about life satisfaction aspirations with their subsequent … aspirations exerts on the subsequent level of life satisfaction, and the second describing the endogenous adjustment process …Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 13,145), we investigate the effects of (not) achieving aspirations …
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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society
Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018
happiness and life satisfaction do not substantially increase with their length of stay or across generations, and therefore … immigrants' growing aspirations and expectations that follow from their habituation to better conditions in their host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924808
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Machiavelli versus concave utility functions : should bads be spread out or concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly data on six positive and twelve negative life events in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180363
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Measuring progress
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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Issues in the estimation of dynamic happiness models : a comment on "Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?"
Piper, Alan T.; Pugh, Geoff - 2016
This paper offers methodological comments on a recent (November 2014) Economic Journal article. The comments consider its use of a dynamic model - the inclusion of a lagged dependent variable - and its approach to estimation. By way of critique, the authors highlight general issues regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419154
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280847
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification : additional Insights on the pattern of convergence
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using … satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283071
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Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John : the impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being
Binder, Martin - 2015
This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285402
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Measuring renewable energy externalities : evidence from subjective well-being data
Möllendorff, Charlotte von; Welsch, Heinz - 2015
,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying and valuing the local externalities from solar, wind and biomass plants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305328
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308432