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Income or Consumption : Which Better Predicts Subjective Wellbeing?

Carver, Tom - 2016

The positive relationship between income and subjective wellbeing has been well documented. However, work assessing the relationship of alternative material wellbeing metrics to subjective wellbeing is limited. Consistent with the permanent income hypothesis, we find that a consumption measure...

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Imitative obesity and relative utility

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009

. -- Body mass index BMI ; comparisons ; imitation ; happiness ; peer effects ; dieting ; mental health ; well-being ; obesity …

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An empirical note on imitative obesity and a puzzling result

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

becoming slimmer as a result of preferences for deviant behaviour. Life satisfaction regressions show a positive effect for BMI … relative to the county average. Paradoxically, BMI relative to the cell average seems to have no effect on life satisfaction … ; comparison ; weight ; BMI ; life satisfaction …

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Limited self-control, obesity and the loss of happiness

Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007

. We propose the economics of happiness as an approach to study the phenomenon. Based on proxy measures for experienced …

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Antidepressants and age

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011

health ; depression ; happiness ; Easterlin paradox …

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Health information and well-being : evidence from an asymptomatic disease

Dahlberg, Matz; Mani, Kevin; Öhman, Mattias; … - 2016

We examine how health information affects individuals' subjective well-being using a regression discontinuity design on data from a screening program for an asymptomatic disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The information provided to the individuals is guided by the measured aorta size and...

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Gender differences in mental well-being : a decomposition analysis

Madden, David - 2008

The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to...

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Smile or die : can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?

Binder, Martin; Bünstorf, Guido - 2016

this paper we assess for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set from 1991-2008 how life satisfaction interacts … claims for the benefits of well-being on mortality: while life satisfaction generally predicts longer survival in the data … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …

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Happiness and health

Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 65-78

We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect … in increasing happiness levels. Then, the probabilty of being happy is estimated by probit models. Results show that the … main relationship is between happiness and health status. Whether this is a causal effect or a correlation, is not clear …

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What happiness research can tell us about self-control problems and utility misprediction

Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2006

misprediction of utility. We propose the economics of happiness as a methodological approach to study these phenomena. Based on …

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