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Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256666
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256963
Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324826
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324942
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504926
Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209443
This paper deals with the concept of happiness in economics. Of late there has come into life a branch of <italic>happiness economics</italic> and it is this field that will be our concern. Actually, not only economists are interested in quantifications of happiness but also researchers in other disciplines....
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satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435018
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
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unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by using two measures of satisfaction (life and financial satisfaction …) and two definitions of reference group. By comparing results between satisfaction measures and across definitions of … literature, we find strong evidence of relative deprivation in financial satisfaction of all individuals in Tanzania, and …
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