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Benefit or burden? : Unraveling the effect of economic freedom on subjective well-being
Gehring, Kai - 2012
effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569583
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Benefit or burden? Unraveling the effect of economic freedom on subjective well-being
Gehring, Kai - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2012
effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266432
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Economic Freedom and Life Satisfaction : A Cross Country Analysis
Graafland, Johan - 2012
This paper estimates the relationship between various sub-indicators of economic freedom and life satisfaction for 122 countries. The estimation results show that life satisfaction is positively related to the quality of the legal system and protection of property rights. For poor countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106594
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Who benefits from big government? : a life satisfaction approach
Knoll, Bodo; Pitlik, Hans - 2014 - This version: 25 July 2014
happiness effects between income groups. The paper addresses empirically the effects of government spending on subjective well … satisfaction. For all government spending categories, marginal happiness effects of higher public spending are clearly negative for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426549
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Institutional Origins of Subjective Well-Being : Estimating the Effects of Economic Freedom on National Happiness
Spruk, Rok - 2017
and subjective well-being. Using Veenhoven's happiness dataset, the evidence suggests countries with better economic … effect of institutions on cross-national happiness is both significant and robust to different model specifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965175
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Does capitalism disfavor women? : evidence from life satisfaction
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2023
There is widespread concern, especially in certain feminist circles, that a market-oriented economic system, or capitalism, disfavors women. This could take many forms, such as lower wages for the same type of work, reduced career opportunities, disparities in ownership and the upholding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332166
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Education, Aspirations and Life Satisfaction
Ferrante, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2009
The idea that expanding work and consumption opportunities always increases people’s wellbeing is well established in economics but finds no support in psychology. Instead, there is evidence in both economics and psychology that people’s life satisfaction depends on how experienced utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690455
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118051
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Government Size and Growth : Accounting for Economic Freedom and Globalization
Bergh, Andreas; Karlsson, Martin - 2009
Several recent studies have found a negative relation between government size and economic growth in rich countries. Since countries with big government have experienced above average improvements in both the Economic freedom index and the KOF globalization index, we argue that existing studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202455
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148