The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the happiness responses of around 350,000 people living in the OECD between 1975 …
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Di Tella, R., MacCulloch, R. J., &Oswald, A. J. (2001). Preferences over inflation and unemployment: Evidence from surveys of happiness. American economic review, 91(1), 335-341.
초록 없음 Di Tella, R., MacCulloch, R. J., &Oswald, A. J. (2001). Preferences over inflation and unemployment: Evidence from surveys of happiness. American economic review, 91(1), 335-341. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.1.335
Slesnick, D. T. (1998). Empirical approaches to the measurement of welfare. Journal of Economic Literature, 36(4), 2108-2165.
초록 없음 Slesnick, D. T. (1998). Empirical approaches to the measurement of welfare. Journal of Economic Literature, 36(4), 2108-2165.
Osterloh, M., Frost, J., &Frey, B. S. (2002). The dynamics of motivation in new organizational forms. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 9(1), 61-77.
This paper discusses the impact of the dynamics of motivation on new organizational forms that are suited to forge value-creating knowledge transfers in teams and between organizational units and functions. Our aim is to develop the management of motivation as a source of distinctive firm competences. We argue that motivation is an endogenous variable and …
Van Praag, B. M. (1991). Ordinal and cardinal utility: an integration of the two dimensions of the welfare concept. Journal of econometrics, 50(1-2), 69-89.
In this paper we distinguish two ‘dimensions’ of the utility concept. The first is the ‘behavioral’ dimension, described by indifference curves in a commodity space. It may be estimated by observing consumer purchase behavior. The second dimension is the ‘welfare’ dimension, i.e., the cardinal utility levels corresponding to indifference curves. The second dimension may be …
Brickman, P., Coates, D., &Janoff-Bulman, R. (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?
Adaptation level theory suggests that both contrast and habituation will operate to prevent the winning of a fortune from elevating happiness as much as might be expected. Contrast with the peak experience of winning should lessen the impact of ordinary pleasures, while habituation should eventually reduce the value of new pleasures made possible by winning. …
Oswald, A. J., &Powdthavee, N. (2008). Does happiness adapt? A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges.
This paper is an empirical study of partial hedonic adaptation. It provides longitudinal evidence that people who become disabled go on to exhibit considerable recovery in mental well-being. In fixed-effects equations we estimate the degree of hedonic adaptation at — depending on the severity of the disability — approximately 30% to 50%. Our calculations should …
Comim, F. (2005). Capabilities and happiness: Potential synergies. Review of social economy, 63(2), 161-176.
The paper compares two prominent approaches to assessing Human Well-Being, the Capability Approach and the Subjective Well-Being Approach. It investigates the differences and the similarities between these approaches. An argument is made for exploring the potential synergies between them. Finally, the papers of this special edition are briefly introduced. Comim, F. (2005). Capabilities …
Ryan, R. M., &Deci, E. L. (2001). On happiness and human potentials: A review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Annual review of psychology, 52(1), 141-166.
Well-being is a complex construct that concerns optimal experience and functioning. Current research on well-being has been derived from two general perspectives: the hedonic approach, which focuses on happiness and defines well-being in terms of pleasure attainment and pain avoidance; and the eudaimonic approach, which focuses on meaning and self-realization and defines well-being in terms …
Easterlin, R. A. (1995). Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all?. Journal of Economic Behavior &Organization, 27(1), 35-47.
Today, as in the past, within a country at a given time those with higher incomes are, on average, happier. However, raising the incomes of all does not increase the happiness of all. This is because the material norms on which judgments of well-being are based increase in the same proportion as the actual income …