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Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality

Proto, Eugenio - 2015

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … a simple model based on Prospect Theory, where we assume that: (i) life satisfaction is dependent on the gap between …

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Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018

Despite growing academic and policy interest in the subjective well-being consequences of emigration for those left behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a global perspective on the well-being consequences of...

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Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany

Merz, Joachim - 2018

Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society … concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction … discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of explanation before and after such a prominent life cycle event, the …

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Sundays are Blue : Aren't They? The Day-of-The-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status

Akay, Alpaslan - 2009

This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...

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Happiness in Europe : Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being

Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009

the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

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Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty

Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …

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Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing : An Experimental Analysis

Holford, Angus - 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 …

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Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth About Happiness Scales

Chen, Le‐Yu - 2019

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that comparing the mean of ordinal data is only valid under strong assumptions that are usually rejected by...

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Well-Being Across America

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental … capita. Correcting for people's incomes, satisfaction with life is lowest in the rich states. We discuss implications for the …

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Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being Across Reference Groups

Goerke, Laszlo - 2015

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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