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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users

Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017

This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...

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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users

Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017

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The shadow prices of voluntary caregiving : using panel data of well-being to estimate the cost of informal care

McDonald, Rebecca; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2018

This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...

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The happiness trade-off between unemployment and inflation

Blanchflower, David G.; Bell, David N. F.; Montagnoli, … - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 46 (2014), pp. 117-141

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Happiness and age : resolving the debate

Blanchflower, David G.; Graham, Carol; Piper, Alan T. - In: National Institute economic review : journal of the … 263 (2023), pp. 76-93

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Have econometric analyses of happiness data been futile? : a simple truth about happiness scales

Chen, Le-Yu; Oparina, Ekaterina; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; … - 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 com-paring the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …

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The welfare implications of addictive substances : a longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users

Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 146 (2018), pp. 206-221

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Youth unemployment in Greece : measuring the challenge

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25

A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional definition of "youth" is the 16-24 age group, there is a strong case for considering 25 to...

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Do humans suffer a psychological low in midlife? : two approaches (with and without controls) in seven data sets

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017

applies each to large cross-sections and compares the patterns of life-satisfaction and happiness. Using the first method …

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Resilience to economic shocks and the long reach of childhood bullying

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2012

potential implications for economists and policy makers are discussed. -- resilience ; adaptation ; happiness ; unemployment …

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