health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … and living in misery) and for men and women. The agerelated changes in the importance of income and social relationships …

We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income … could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income … subjective well-being (SWB) data from the U.S. Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and geographically-based median-income data …

society. It is also found that relative income is more important to happiness at higher levels of absolute income. Potential … the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of … others in the local residential cluster - enters the household’s utility function positively but that income of more distant …

society. It is also found that relative income is more important to happiness at higher levels of absolute income. Potential … the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of … others in the local residential cluster - enters the household’s utility function positively but that income of more distant …

type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the …

half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we …

type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the …

type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the …