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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban
Petilliot, René - 2018
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using … subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the … unaffected. My findings are well in line with the rational addiction model perspective. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891954
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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban
Petilliot, René - 2018
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using … subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the … unaffected. My findings are well in line with the rational addiction model perspective. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888440
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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban
Petilliot, René - 2018
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using … subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the … unaffected. My findings are well in line with the rational addiction model perspective. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897296
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Do Large Governments Decrease Happiness?
Sequeira, Tiago; Minas, Tiago; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Until now there was little evidence of the influence of large governments on happiness and when it existed, it was positive. We show that structural government consumption and other measures of long-term government imbalances significantly decrease happiness and life satisfaction in European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109823
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The impact of terrorism on well-being : evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Doyle, Orla - 2017
A growing literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, yet less is known about its impact on utility. This paper estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing on well-being, by exploiting representative U.S. daily data. Using both a regression discontinuity and an event...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714846
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305432
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The Effects of Social Media Use on the Well-Being of Users. The Wonderland of HaikuJAM
Andrén, Daniela - 2019
Internet usage in general and social networking platforms (SNPs) in particular have dramatically changed the way we spend our time. A relevant question is how this change in time-use affected the well-being of people in general and younger people in particular. We answer this question by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654450
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Human well-being and in-work benefits : a randomized controlled trial
Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246020
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201282
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The development and happiness of very young children
Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016
The paper demonstrates how Sen’s (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557329