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Happy Times : Measuring Happiness Using Response Times

Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental identification problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified assumptions about the...

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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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The Baby Year Parental Leave Reform in the GDR and its Impact on Children's Long-Term Life Satisfaction

Heisig, Katharina - 2019

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … robust positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is … the increase in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low …

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A Happy Way to Grow Old? Grandparent Caregiving, Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction

Wang, Hao - 2019

study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …

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Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being : An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data

Hoang, Thi Truong An - 2019

persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …

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Trust, Happiness, and Pro-Social Behavior

Carattini, Stefano - 2020

This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...

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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias - 2020

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel...

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Group-Specific Redistribution, Inequality, and Subjective Well-Being in China

Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022

Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China’s urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...

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The 'Welcomed Lockdown' Hypothesis : When Do Mobility Restrictions Influence Mental Wellbeing?

Costa-Font, Joan; Knapp, Martin; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and its mobility restrictions have been an external shock, influencing wellbeing. However, does risk exposure affect the welfare effect of lockdowns? This paper examines the ‘welcomed lockdown’ hypothesis, namely the extent to which there is a level of risk where...

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Income and Happiness Across Europe : Do Reference Values Matter?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2021

life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the …

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