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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013
. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747819
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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013
. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338942
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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951423
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Education, income and happiness : panel evidence for the UK
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2017
Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770417
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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013
. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009759758
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Different versions of the Easterlin paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944550
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505150
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803715
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The asymmetric experience of positive and negative economic growth : global evidence using subjective well-being data
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; De Keulenaer, Femke - 2015
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are experienced. We find that measures of life satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498599