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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
Clark, Andrew - 2011
thresholds. Such regime changes are visible to the eye through the lens of subjective satisfaction measures. The case of … Transition countries is particularly impressive in this respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirrored changes in GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127954
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Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation During 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838489
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The (Subjective) Well-Being Cost of Fiscal Policy Shocks
Eklou, Kodjovi - 2020
Do discretionary spending cuts and tax increases hurt social well-being? To answer this question, we combine subjective well-being data covering over half a million of individuals across 13 European countries, with macroeconomic data on fiscal consolidations. We find that fiscal consolidations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840601
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Big-City Life (Dis)satisfaction? The Effect of Urban Living on Subjective Well-Being
Loschiavo, David - 2019
This paper investigates the effect of big-city life on individuals' well-being. Combining data on Italian municipalities' characteristics with individual-level survey data, I find that city size negatively affects subjective well-being. This association is not driven by omitted variable bias or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865199
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A Happy Choice : Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
Frijters, Paul - 2019
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859762
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Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018
Despite growing academic and policy interest in the subjective well-being consequences of emigration for those left behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a global perspective on the well-being consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922450
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Income and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from Singapore's First National Non-Contributory Pension
Chen, Yanying - 2018
satisfaction of recipients, and appeared to be driven by social, household income, and economic satisfaction. Consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933610
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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254144
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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility - as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction … - exists. While daughters have less subjective wealth and life satisfaction than sons, daughters have higher transmission of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187174
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Antidepressants for economists and business-school researchers : an introduction and review
Katolik, Aleksandra; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these pills. Here we review some of the social-science...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724546