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Valuing Public Goods: The Life Satisfaction Approach

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people’s preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improveenvironmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals valuethe environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representinga new non-market valuation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025009

Happiness Research: State and Prospects

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

This paper intends to provide an evaluation of where the economic research on happiness stands and in which interesting … directions it might develop. First, the current state of the research on happiness in economics is briefly discussed. We … emphasize the potential of happiness research in testing competing theories of individual behavior. Second, the crucial issue of …

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Happiness Research: State and Prospects

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004

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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach

Okuyama, Naoko - 2017

Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...

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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

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 … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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Lower in rank, but happier: the complex relationship between status and happiness

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2016

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness …-shaped relation between status and happiness. The same trend is much less pronounced in data on 1000 individuals living in the state …

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Happiness and development

Nikolova, Milena - 2016

Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...

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