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Nikolova, Milena - 2016

Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic … increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical … happiness. We derive a simple test of whether reversals are possible by relabelling the scores of reported happiness and deduce …

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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 …

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Valuing air quality using happiness data : the case of China

Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2016

hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data according to exact dates and locations of … happiness. By holding happiness constant, we calculate the tradeoff between the reduction in particulate matter and income …, essentially a happiness-based measure of willingness-to-pay for mitigating air pollution. We find that people on average are …

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

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Satisfaction with life, happiness, and inequality - a pseudo-panel study

Jensen, Søren; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2020

The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact on well-being among the population in Denmark. After a survey of the literature we use attitude variables from the European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the...

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Well-being across America

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2009

; happiness ; geography ; GHQ ; Easterlin Paradox ; mental health ; depression ; life course …

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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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