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Approval of equal rights and gender : differences in well-being

Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the appropriate pay for women compared to men may explain these findings. In order to capture the spatial variation in such norms, we take community level information on citizens' approval...

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Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction : German Results with an Australian Replication

Headey, Bruce - 2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

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Do Equal Rights for a Minority Affect General Life Satisfaction?

Berggren, Niclas - 2017

While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions … embodying equal rights for gay people matter for the life satisfaction of gays, we combine these two issues to analyze how the … latter type of institutions relates to general life satisfaction. The question is how people in general are affected by laws …

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When Does Government Ideology Matter? Evidence from Subjective Well-Being in Europe

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2014

This paper considers how lay theory and perceptions of issue ownership affect voters' expectations of political and economic developments. These expectations are likely to mediate the effects on subjective well-being of specific developments. Estimates employing a panel of 29 European countries...

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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction – Revising SWB Theory to Account for Change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

substantial effects on life satisfaction. The results have negative implications for the still dominant theory of SWB, set … apparently permanent changes in life satisfaction. It is becoming clear that the main challenge now for SWB researchers is to …

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Chapter Twenty-Four. Freedom, Opportunity, and Well-Being

Foster, James E. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 687-728). 2011

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options offers a decision maker real opportunities to achieve. Three cases are investigated: no preferences, a single preference, and plural preferences. The three corresponding...

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Relative Deprivation and Well-Being of the Rural Youth

Sakketa, Takalign; Gerber, Nicolas - 2021

income RD has a ‘’status effect’’— higher income of others in the reference group reduces life satisfaction. Both objective …

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Crossing boundaries and time : an exploration of time allocation, emotional well-being of immigrants in the United States

Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Lagravinese, Raffaele - 2023

This study investigates the emotional experiences of immigrants and native- born individuals in the United States, exploring the relationship between daily activities and feelings of happiness, stress, and meaningfulness. We analyze the entire range of daily activities and their durations,...

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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey - 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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264