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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435018
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How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness?
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - 2002
Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross … respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326407
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326414
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402365
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001613893
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Political institutions and suicide : a regional analysis of Switzerland
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003839373
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Social Capital and Relative Income Concerns : Evidence from 26 Countries
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003839473
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Inequality and happiness : when perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …. Consistent with our theoretical model, the results for high-mobility countries turn out to be ambiguous. -- happiness ; life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697799
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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2010
, education, and gender) that may be correlated with both risk attitudes and inequality aversion. -- Happiness ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934990
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Income comparisons and non-cognitive skills
Budría, Santiago; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2012
People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual's set of non-cognitive skills. Using the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533983