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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662483
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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972 …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s …. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: Two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been …
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 39 (2008) 1 (Spring), pp. 1-102
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Happiness and public choice
Frey, Bruno; Stutzer, Alois - In: Public Choice 144 (2010) 3, pp. 557-573
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Subjective Well‐Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660252
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Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness: A Selective Overview
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
. The economics of happiness has emerged as one of the most thriving areas in current economic research. This introductory … chapter refers to important contributions to the economics of happiness that characterize the recent developments in the area …. First, we refer to reviews of the literature, the measurement and the relationship of happiness research to welfare …
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084479
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Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186016
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress *
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in wellbeing has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well‐being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186027