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Do higher childcare subsidies improve parental well-being? Evidence from Québec's family policies

Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...

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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...

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Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective

Stutzer, Alois - 2019

This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...

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The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-being

Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019

This study analyzes the effects of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on the subjective well-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of...

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The Easterlin Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

enjoy the corresponding procedural utility. Utility is measured by individuals reported subjective well-being or happiness …

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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st … century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical … applicability of happiness economics, retaining the assumption of ordinal individual utilities. In Section 4 we introduce a cardinal …

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Hukou changes and subjective well-being

Tani, Massimiliano - 2015

The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has generally been problematic, principally for lack of...

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity , ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010

vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With …

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Crime victimisation and subjective well-being : panel evidence from Australia

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Zhu, Rong - 2015

This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our methodology improves on previous contributions by (i) controlling for the endogeneity of victimisation and (ii) analysing the heterogeneous effect of victimisation along the whole...

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