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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard - 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/10013073851
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Explaining Well-Being Over the Life Cycle : A Look at Life Transitions During Young Adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2014
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/10013061045
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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Remedy-Seeking Society : A Public Choice Perspective
Kochan, Donald J. - 2014
Written for the Chapman Law Review Symposium on “What Can Law & Economics Teach Us About the Corporate Social Responsibility Debate?,” this Article applies the lessons of public choice theory to examine corporate social responsibility. The Article adopts a broad definition of corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062441
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Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010884361
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What predicts a successful life? A life-course model of well-being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 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/10010937195
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What predicts a successful life? A life-course model of well-being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 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/10010937199
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010960126
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The Objectivity of Well-Being and the Objectives of Property Law
Lewinsohn-Zamir, Daphna - 2015
Assuming that the enhancement of people's well-being is a worthy goal for the state to pursue, the question of what well-being consists of arises. This fundamental question has been debated extensively by philosophers, but it is mostly ignored in the legal literature, mainly due to the dominance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219703
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Is There an "Iron Law of Happiness"?
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR), … - 2005
Contrary to the setpoint model of some psychologists, individual happiness does not tend to fluctuate around a constant level. Although the personality and genetic factors emphasized by setpoint theorists are important in explaining individual differences in happiness at a point in time, survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132574
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Family evolution and contemporary social transformations
Sergio, Reuben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In the first place, this paper intends to analyze the kind of relationships existing inside the family. In order to do that, the author makes an effort to reconsider its historical forming process applying the classical anthropological texts. At this stage, the analysis proposes two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621906