Showing 121 - 130 of 557,176
This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384641
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783670
expectations over two time periods. Life satisfaction is used as a proxy for mental well-being. To identify a causal effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257796
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259190
. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …-income hypothesis: the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338942
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342250
Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365069
these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the quantiles of satisfaction with various life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365092
internet as a source of information derive relatively less life satisfaction from the same level of income. Using panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344634
The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General … Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong … gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or parental activities affect only female life satisfaction, males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346726