Sökning: "the Easterlin Paradox"

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1. 1. The Negative Externality of Peer Group Income: Evidence from Three Developed Economies

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Jón Sjúrður Pálsson Arge; [2021]
   Nyckelord :happiness economics; social comparison; peer group income; Easterlin Paradox; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : This paper examines the effect of peer group household income on happiness in three developed economies: the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, where we define peer groups by age, gender, and education. Using the most recent panel waves from the General Social Survey (GSS) and the European Social Survey (ESS), we find comparable results from all three countries, namely a negative coefficient of peer group household income that is statistically not different in absolute magnitude from the coefficient of the respondent’s own household income. LÄS MER

3. 2. Is it wrong to assume economic growth promotes well-being in society?

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Författare :John Norell; Anh Phung Duc; [2018-07-05]
   Nyckelord :Easterlin paradox; Subjective well-being; Happiness; Life satisfaction; Economic growth; Income inequality; Panel data; European Social Survey;

   Sammanfattning : Economic growth has for long been implicitly assumed to promote well-being in society, but lately scholars in the field of happiness research have raised critique towards this assumption. This paper investigate the relationship between economic growth and subjective well-being (SWB) in society, a topic that have risen in popularity over recent decades. LÄS MER

4. 3. Economic Development and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox.

   Kandidat-uppsats, KTH/Matematisk statistik

   Författare :William Sihver; Aso Qader; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Economic development; subjective well-being; gross domestic product; the Easterlin Paradox; time series regression;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis within Industrial Economics and Applied Mathematics investigates the relationship between economic development and subjective well-being. The Easterlin Paradox, originally stated by Richard Easterlin in 1974, is reassessed by utilizing cross-sectional and time series data. LÄS MER

5. 4. Happiness Economics: Validity of subjective wellbeing measures and considerations for public policy

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Miguel Lazaro Garcia; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Happiness economics; subjective wellbeing; personality traits; Easterlin Paradox; public policy; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : Happiness is a relatively new discipline within economics. Traditionally, economists have not paid too much attention to it since they considered that both indicators and theoretical assumptions in which this discipline was based were not neither reliable nor useful for policy recommendations. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Pursuit of Happiness - An econometric study on Swedish microdata

   C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Författare :Hampus Tunhammar; Malcolm Burenstam Linder; [2013]
   Nyckelord :Easterlin paradox; Determinants of happiness; Income-happiness puzzle; Subjective well-being; The U-shaped age curve;

   Sammanfattning : Finding the possible sources of subjective well-being has become an increasingly popular field of research within economics. As the literature has evolved, a number of factors have been suggested to be important, however previous research is in some cases contradictory and thus somewhat incomplete. LÄS MER