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From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn about welfare or preferences when choice data are...

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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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Do People Report Happiness Accurately?

Andreoni, James; Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Jia, Tingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a novel validation method: subjects report how happy they would feel (or did feel) after some specified event, as well as how they would respond (or would have responded) to a...

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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity : Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations

Dominitz, Jeff - 1996

We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near-term futures. This paper uses SEE data on over two thousand labor force participants interviewed in 1994 and 1995 to describe how Americans in the labor force perceive the risk of...

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Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 132 Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …

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Unhappiness and age

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million respondents across forty European countries and the United States. I use fifteen different individual characterizations of unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness;...

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...

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The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2019

it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

with greater life satisfaction at all ages, but especially so at ages 60 and above, in some samples deepening the U …-shape in age by increasing the size of the life satisfaction gains following the mid-life low …

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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the … between membership and job satisfaction is apparent in cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s but turns positive for those born …

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