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Subjective and physiological measures of well-being: an exploratory analysis using birth-cohort data
Andrén, Daniela; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2017
birth and early-life conditions on adulthood outcomes. These latter include both well-being and the stress hormone cortisol …. Employment and marital status are important adult determinants of well-being. Log family income and absence from school also … predict adult well-being, although their importance falls when controlling for adult and birth characteristics. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654426
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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data
Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018
To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this … link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British … adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131233
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; 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 predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329089
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Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2013
answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study are used for three cohorts interviewed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329187
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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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Valuing depression using the well-being valuation approach
Andrén, Daniela - 2020
The continuously dramatic increase of the number of people suffering from depression attracts an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing depression. Without the need for new interventions, there is also a continuous call for a more robust framework for economic evaluation of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654468
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The Long-Lasting Effects of Family and Childhood on Adult Wellbeing: Evidence from British Cohort Data
Flèche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018
To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this … link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British … adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796375
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Explaining well-being over the life cycle : a look at life transitions during young adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2013
answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study are used for three cohorts interviewed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229927
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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 predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201282
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Characterizing the Choice Environment : Feeling Constrained as an Impediment to Happiness
Guthrie, Katherine - 2013
We posit that feeling constrained impedes happiness. Under this view, utility and happiness maximization yield the same optimal choices in a variety of standard economic decision problems, but utility and happiness can move in opposite directions in response to exogenous shocks. Our theory (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086249