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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101556
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130949
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Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness : Evidence from Six Surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147812
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Predicting the Trend of Well-Being in Germany : How Much Do Comparisons, Adaptation and Sociability Matter?
Bartolini, Stefano - 2011
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the variation of subjective well-being experienced by Germans over the last two decades testing the role of some of the major correlates of people's well-being. Our results suggest that the variation of Germans' well-being...
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Monitoring Subjective Well-Being : Some New Empirical Evidence for Germany
Oltmanns, Erich - 2014
What is subjective well-being influenced by? Since the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi a huge number of studies has raised this question – with partly different findings. In addition, international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045093
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Happy House : Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being
Clark, Andrew E.; Etile, Fabrice - 2011
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner’s weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187322
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203865
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Dissatisfied with Life or with Being Interviewed? Happiness and Motivation to Participate in a Survey
Chadi, Adrian - 2014
Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people’s responses to questions on happiness … happiness. Analyses of responses by future non-respondents substantiate this finding and shed light on a key question for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147186
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The German Socio-Economic Panel as a Reference Data Set
Siedler, Thomas; Schupp, Jürgen; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2009
This paper discusses how household panels in general - and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in particular - can serve as reference data for researchers collecting datasets that do not represent the full universe of the population of interest (e.g., through clinical trials, intervention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211884
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Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work‐To‐Family Conflicts in Germany than Men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne - 2018
Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions....
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