Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well‐being

By Anthony Clunies‐Ross. 2002

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Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility (2002, methodology): “People may have a preference for participation as an activity as well as a characteristic of an institution.22 If so, the right to directly participate in the democratic process gives citizens a sense that their preferences are seriously taken into account in a fair political process.”
Tax morale in Latin America (2005, background): “Jenkins (1995) points out that the income tax has performed very badly in Latin America, tending to yield modest amounts of revenue. Characteristics as, for example, a large agricultural sector, a high degree of shadow economy, small firms, and a small proportion of wage income according to Tanzi an”
Working time reduction policy in a sustainable economy: criteria and options for its design. (2014, background): “Easterlin, 1974; Jackson, 2009; SDC, 2003), at a level past about US $10,000 per year (Frey and Stutzer, 2002).”
Ordered response models (2006, background): “The relationship between income and happiness was studied before in a number of papers (see, for example, Easterlin, 1973, 1974; Scitkovsky, 1975; Frey and Stutzer, 2000, 2002; Shields and Wheatley Price, 2004 and the references therein) and has gained renewed interest in the recent literature…”
Reliability and Validity of Japanese Versions of the Flourishing Scale and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (2013, background): “Despite Japan’s considerable income growth since World War II and current high income, the nation is known as a country having relatively low subjective well-being (Diener 2000; Diener and Suh 1999) and an invariable level of self-reported happiness (Frey and Stutzer 2001; Kahneman and Krueger 2006)”
Uber happy? Work and well-being in the ‘Gig Economy’ (2019, background): “…drivers overwhelmingly are male immigrants often drawn from Black, Bangladeshi, 2 See, for example, Freeman (1978), Blanchflower and Oswald (1998), Blanchflower (2000), Blanchflower et al. (2001), Benz and Frey (2008), Frey and Stutzer (2010), De Neve and Ward (2017), and Lindqvist et al. (2018).”
Trends in Perceived Job Quality, 1989 to 1998 (2005, methodology): “As one economist said simply, “Economic things matter only in so far as they make people happier” (Oswald, 1997; see also Easterlin, 1996; Frey & Stutzer, 2002).”
A Vision for Human Well-Being: Transition to Social Sustainability (2012, neutral): “Recent studies show that monetary wealth provides improvement of well-being, up to a level of US $10000 PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) [92], after which many other factors enter into the equation.”
Life Goals Matter to Happiness: A Revision of Set-Point Theory (2008, background): “An alternative account suggests that adaptation is typically about 70% (Frey and Stutzer 2002). durables)—gains presumably greater than the Jones’s were making at the same time—raise their aspirations and almost immediately want more consumer goods.”
Self-regulation and the problem of human autonomy: does psychology need choice, self-determination, and will? (2006, background): “Similarly, within the field of economics there is growing interest in human freedom and autonomy and their significance for a society’s quality of life (e.g., Sen, 1999; Frey & Stutzer, 2002).”
Happiness: has social science a clue? Lecture 1: what is happiness? Are we getting happier? (2003, neutral): “This would lead you to 14 Frey and Stutzer (2002), p.9 15 Eurobarometer tapes from Eurostat.”
Subjective well-being and the family: Results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects (2005, background): “And yet, a recent but rapidly increasing literature (surveyed in Frey and Stutzer, 2001, among others) raises the hope that some real progress can be made in understanding what people value and what makes them happy.”
Positive organizational psychology, behavior, and scholarship: A review of the emerging literature and evidence base (2010, neutral): “…Quick & Quick, 2004; Taylor & Sherman, 2004), health care (Houston, 2006), social and human services (Radey & Figley, 2007; Ronel, 2006), economics (Frey & Stutzer, 2002; Marks, Shah, & Westall, 2004), political science (Linley & Joseph, 2004), neuroscience (Burgdorf, 2001), leadership (Avolio,…”
Sport Participation and Happiness Among Older Adults: A Mediating Role of Social Capital (2020, background): “Even though the effects of socio-demographic variables on happiness vary, the significant relationships have been found (Fortin et al. 2015; Frey and Stutzer 2010; Helliwell and Putnam 2004).”
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: Recommendations on Measures for use by National Governments (2012, background): “…evaluation when people are asked to provide global assessments of their life or domains of life, such as satisfaction with life overall, health, job, etc. Economists have been interested in using life satisfaction for some time (see Frey and Stutzer, 2002; van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2004).”
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing for Public Policy: Recommendations on Measures (2011, background): “…an evaluation when people are asked to provide global assessments of their life or domains of life, such as satisfaction with life overall, health, job etc. Economists have been interested in using life satisfaction for some time (see Frey and Stutzer, 2002; van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2005).”
Beyond Money (2004, background): “Because household production can represent as much as 25 to 50% of an economy (Frey & Stutzer, 2002a), it is widely recognized by economists that this represents a blind spot in the GDP measure.”