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Survey design and the determinants of subjective wellbeing : an experimental analysis
Holford, Angus J.; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2015
and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, mode of interviewing, and location of … distribution of reported satisfaction measures, particularly for women. Results from the sort of conditional modeling used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467804
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The analysis of human feelings: a practical suggestion for a robustness test
Bloem, Jerey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603839
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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193738
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The development and happiness of very young children
Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 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/10011540021
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Individual rationality and learning : welfare expectations in East Germany post-reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002
and those with children. However, expectations and realizations of life satisfaction in East Germany had converged by 1995 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411452
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Valuing air quality using happiness data : the case of China
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2016
This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data according to exact dates and locations of interviews in China, we are able to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497267
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Towards a theory of life satisfaction accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016
An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502854
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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016
U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526744
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Do people seek to maximize their subjective well-being?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
suggest that close to 90% of the respondents actually seek to maximize their SWB. The life satisfaction question appears the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376247
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Hukou changes and subjective well-being
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has generally been problematic, principally for lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376248