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Dugain, Valéry; Olaberriá, Eduardo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

The growing literature studying the determinants of subjective wellbeing find that Mexicans report, on average, levels of life satisfaction that are above what would be predicted by the available objective measures of well-being. This paradox raises the following question: Are the drivers of...

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What makes Mexicans happy?

Dugain, Valéry; Olaberriá, Eduardo - 2015

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … capita across countries, and find no evidence of a satiation point beyond which wealthier countries have no further increases … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income …

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The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

for a satiation point above which income and well-being are no longer related. …

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Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

-log and does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it. …

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Happiness economics

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-60

There is enough evidence to be confident that individuals are able and willing to provide a meaningful answer when asked to value on a finite scale their satisfaction with their own lives, a question that psychologists have long and often posed to respondents of large questionnaires. Without...

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The Place of Nature in Economic Development

Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of Development Economics

In this chapter both theory and empirics are used to show that our picture of the processes of economic development changes radically when nature is introduced as a capital asset. Particular features of institutions that fashion societies' use of the natural-resource base are identified and...

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Chapter 74. The Place of Nature in Economic Development

Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4977-5046). 2010

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 209 (2023), pp. 200-204

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Unsatisfying ordinalism : the breach through which happiness (re)entered economics

Mota, Gabriel Leite - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 14 (2022) 3, pp. 513-528

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