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Calidad de Vida, tiempo libre y actividad física de los uruguayos: Presentación de resultados empíricos
Ferre, Zuleika; Gandelman, Néstor; Piani, Giorgina; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2008
This paper presents descriptive data about Uruguayan’s quality of life and spare time. The data is divided depending on sex, education, age and living place of the target people of this study. Four of five interviewed people reported feeling quite happy or very happy. However, degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466870
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How do Cultural Activities Influence Happiness? The Relation Between Self-Reported Well-Being and Leisure
Ateca-Amestoy, Victoria; Gerstenblüth, Mariana; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2014
Well-being, measured as self-reported happiness has many determinants, which range from gender to income and political … in the levels of reported happiness, which is in line with the proposed ideas of Stiglitz et al (2009). We also quantify … individual happiness levels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099800
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Satisfacción con la vida, fe religiosa y asistencia al templo en Uruguay
Ferre, Zuleika; Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010
In this study, using data from the Religion, Health and Youth Emancipation survey, 2008 (DECON-FCS, Uruguay, ISSP), we estimate the probability of being happy with special emphasis on its relationship with religion and religiosity. We find that those who profess the Protestant faith are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833392
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Salud y felicidad en Uruguay
Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Jewell, Todd; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010
In this paper we study the relationship between individual happiness and self reported health status, using the … highest correlation with happiness. In order to control for the observed heterogeneity of this variable, we estimate using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833413
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Ingreso y desigualdad: ¿Cómo afectan a la felicidad en América Latina?
Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010
the levels of happiness reported by people. The main contribution of this paper is the examination of not only the direct … effect of economic performance on happiness, but also the indirect macroeconomic effects through the subjective income scale … poverty, income per capita and the human development index have only a significant direct impact on individual happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833426
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Testing Happiness Hypothesis among the Elderly
Cid, Alejandro; Ferrés, Daniel; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2007
A growing strand of economic literature focuses its attention on the relationship between happiness levels and various … age 60 or older. We use a rich data set that allows us to test different happiness hypothesis employing four … for their standard of living. On the contrary, they report lower levels of happiness when they live alone and when their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292546
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Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to publicservices in deprived areas
Duffy, Bobby - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widelythought that public services meet the needs of residents less well indeprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed onservices being greater and the services themselves being of a lowerquality. This paper looks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695296
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Social Welfare Systems in East Asia:A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare
Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five EastAsian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as incomedistribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-byprogrammereview of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756562
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Talking to Families in East London
Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
Katharine Mumford reports on her first round of interviews with 100 familiesliving in two East London neighbourhoods. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families, and to uncover the significance of area conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008766036
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Are one man’s rags another man’s riches?Identifying adaptive expectations using panel data
Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
[...]This paper contributes to the identification of adaptive expectations by using ten years of panel data from the British Household Panel Survey to study the process of adaptation based on the individual’s own previous experience. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354042