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personal well-being. To identify potential exposure to a weather shock, we link satellite-based data on flooding to an … extensive household panel survey from rural Southeast Asia. We find that mere proximity to a potentially adverse shock, even … without reporting any actual experience of the shock, can be sufficient to reduce individual well-being levels. This effect is …
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flood shock, without any direct impact on a household's material well-being, can be sufficient to affect subjective well-being. … GIS data on local flood shocks to an extensive household sample from rural Southeast Asia. This allows us to contrast … individuals who actually experienced a shock with those who did not. We find that the mere proximity to a potentially adverse …
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personal well-being. To identify potential exposure to a weather shock, we link satellite-based data on flooding to an … extensive household panel survey from rural Southeast Asia. We find that mere proximity to a potentially adverse shock, even … without reporting any actual experience of the shock, can be sufficient to reduce individual well-being levels. This effect is …
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significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% fall from pre-flood levels …This paper employs a panel event study design to examine the causal effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany … on subjective well-being. We merge geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …
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satisfaction across 33 countries. Individuals who believe that inequality has increased in the previous 4 years are on average 8 … and changes into account does not alter the conclusions, suggesting that inequality perception matters for life … satisfaction above and beyond actual inequality. Our findings survive a battery of robustness checks, including an instrumental …
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examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions … compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life satisfaction, and differences in the domains of life which have the … significant effect on SWB. Satisfaction with family life and health have the largest while satisfaction with income has the lowest …
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examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions … compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life satisfaction, and differences in the domains of life which have the … significant effect on SWB. Satisfaction with family life and health have the largest while satisfaction with income has the lowest …
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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...
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