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Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being : a quantile approach

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2014

these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the quantiles of satisfaction with various life …

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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...

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International migration desires related to subjective well-being

Cai, Ruohong; Esipova, Neli; Oppenheimer, Michael; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have...

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Information technologies and subjective well-being : does the internet raise material aspirations? ; conference paper

Lohmann, Steffen - 2013

internet as a source of information derive relatively less life satisfaction from the same level of income. Using panel data …

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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation

Humpert, Stephan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142

The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General … Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong … gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or parental activities affect only female life satisfaction, males …

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Economic approaches to understanding change in happiness

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2014

Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people are not indifferent to adverse living conditions when...

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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30

relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using … happier, experience less stress and anger, and have higher job satisfaction than other employees. Using statistical matching …

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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001

Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...

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Putting a price tag on security : subjective well-being and willingness-to-pay for crime reduction in Europe

Brenig, Mattheus; Proeger, Till - 2016

Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … reduce life satisfaction across Europe. Building upon these results, we quantify the monetary value of improvements in public … safety and its valuation in terms of individual well-being. The loss in satisfaction for victimized individuals corresponds …

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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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