Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 292
Cover Image
Getting Warmer : Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2022
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin" …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087664
Cover Image
Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Fleche, Sarah - 2015
from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016269
Cover Image
Happiness and Growth the World Over : Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764241
Cover Image
Happiness and Economic Growth : Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764679
Cover Image
Happiness and Public Policy : A Procedural Perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862466
Cover Image
The Development and Happiness of Very Young Children
Anand, Paul - 2016
The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982130
Cover Image
Double-Edged Sword : Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2022
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087385
Cover Image
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085480
Cover Image
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087043
Cover Image
Happiness and Economic Growth : The Evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087399