Essays about: "the Easterlin Paradox"
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1. The Negative Externality of Peer Group Income: Evidence from Three Developed Economies
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : 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. READ MORE
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2. Is it wrong to assume economic growth promotes well-being in society?
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistikAbstract : 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. READ MORE
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3. Economic Development and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox.
University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistikAbstract : 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. READ MORE
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4. Happiness Economics: Validity of subjective wellbeing measures and considerations for public policy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : 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. READ MORE
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5. The Pursuit of Happiness - An econometric study on Swedish microdata
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : 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. READ MORE