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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/10010334227
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: Evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fléche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334229
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional Insights on the pattern of convergence
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282365
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
This article investigates the effects of an increase in paid parental leave - twelve months instead of six months - on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), allows us to circumvent problems of selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140767
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Hartz and minds: Happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294311
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Emotions and risk attitudes
Meier, Armando N. - 2021
. Using a large panel data set, I identify happiness, anger, and fear as significant correlates of within-person changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590976
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Television, health, and happiness: A natural experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2021
economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643588
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The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531198
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The development and happiness of very young children
Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016
activities which is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … some cases the association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558639
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Are Regional Differences in Utility Eliminated over Time? Evidence from Germany
Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2007
locations. Using happiness data from the German socio-economic panel this paper empirically tests whether regional utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600662