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Does the stork deliver happiness? : parenthood and life satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012
be associated with substantial positive satisfaction gains. -- Happiness ; subjective well-being ; children ; fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743911
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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2013
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the … sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age-happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756035
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Putting a price tag on security : subjective well-being and willingness-to-pay for crime reduction in Europe
Brenig, Mattheus; Proeger, Till - 2016
Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction approach (LSA) to determine the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB), income, victimization experience, fear of crime and various regional crime rates across European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436848
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Happiness in transition : the case of Kyrgyzstan
Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - 1998
divorced. There appears to be little correlation between happiness and either gender or education level. We find some evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529349
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Sleep duration and life satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - 2015
Sleep is an important part of life, with an individual spending an estimated 32 years of her life asleep. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505113
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Die Entwicklung des Lebensstandards im Dritten Reich : eine glücksökonomische Perspektive
Wahl, Fabian - 2011
happiness economics are applied to the peacetime of the Third Reich to analyze the development of the standard of living in this … economic determinants of happiness during the 1930s is examined. -- Economic History ; Third Reich ; Happiness Economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295830
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Age, life-satisfaction, and relative income : insights from the UK and Germany
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2011
We first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516928
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So far so good : age, happiness, and relative income
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2011
In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389096
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Children, spousal love, and happiness : an economic analysis
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683159
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The caregiving responsibilities of retirees : what are they and how do they affect retirees' well-being?
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Oumtrakool, Eakamon - 2015
Using data from the 2010 and 2012 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) and the associated Well-being Modules, this paper examines how caregiving affects the well-being of retirees who are caregivers. Different caregiving activities are examined, including caring for household children, caring for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407827