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Happiness, Personal Income, and National Income : New Evidence from Taiwan

Cui, Zhen - 2017

This study explores the relationship between income and happiness using data from Taiwan. It also proposes a two …-stage estimation method for studying the macroeconomics of happiness. The study finds that while personal income has a strong positive … effect on individual happiness, national income fails to have any significant effect in either the short run or the long run …

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Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty

Deaton, Angus - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 5-34

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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...

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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone : a cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

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Does happiness adapt? : A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor); … - 2006

over the world currently use ad hoc methods. -- disability ; adaptation ; happiness ; legal compensation ; wellbeing ; GHQ …

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Measuring renewable energy externalities : evidence from subjective well-being data

Möllendorff, Charlotte von; Welsch, Heinz - 2015

Electricity from renewable sources avoids disadvantages of conventional power generation but often meets with local resistance due to visual, acoustic, and odor nuisance. We use representative panel data on the subjective well-being of 46,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying...

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A cross-state comparison of measures of subjective well-being

Song, Younghwan - 2015

Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are...

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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014 - This version: January 2014

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

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On the measurement of human well-being : fuzzy set theory and Sen's capability approach

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina N. - 2004 - Revised version

Sen’s influential work on human development has led economists to explore new areas that have become increasingly important for human well-being. In particular, Sen emphasizes the importance of the "freedom to choose". Freedom, however, is not always an exact (crisp) outcome, and membership in...

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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016

controlling for the rate of unemployment and per capita GDP. The character of poverty as a public bad suggests that poverty …

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