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Wealth
Hamilton, Kirk; Hepburn, Cameron - In: Oxford review of economic policy 30 (2014) 1, pp. 1-20
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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[Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with 'subjective' indicators for human and social capital]
Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens … - 2015
limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the … analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in Europe and replacing the simple life satisfaction measure with measures of … indicating that general 'social trust` is strongly associated with economic performance. This component was shown to have robust …
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What makes people happy? : an empirical investigation of panel data
Kim, Rae Yule - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 2, pp. 91-94
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Predicting the trend of well-being in Germany : how much do comparisons, adaptation and sociability matter?
Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2011
large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age. …
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Luxury car owners are not happier than frugal car owners
Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam; Nash, Tim; Tursi, Natasha O. - In: International review of economics : journal of civil economy 62 (2015) 2, pp. 121-141
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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013
a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …. 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 …
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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013
a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009759758
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Adaptation and loss aversion in the relationship between GDP and subjective well-being
Hovi, Matti; Laamanen, Jani-Petri - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 21 (2021) 3, pp. 863-895
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...
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