Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics

By R. Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch. 2006

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “Some of these implications have been presented in general terms (e.g. Frey and Stutzer, 2002a; Layard, 2005; Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2006), but we here provide a more formal and wide-ranging discussion of these economic issues.”
Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location (2015, background): “Subjective well-being is widely considered as a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility in the economics literature (Blanchflower & Oswald, 2008; Di Tella & MacCulloch, 2006; Kahneman & Krueger, 2006; Oswald, 1997).”
On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation (2010, methodology): “SWB scores have been used in a growing economics literature studying the determinants of individual quality of life (see e.g., Easterlin, 1973, 1974, for early contributions, and Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2006; and Clark et al., 2008 for recent surveys).”
Capabilities and Satisfaction with Life (2007, background): “More and more papers on this topic appear in top academic journals, and recent surveys are widely read and widely cited (Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Layard, 2005; Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2006; Kahneman and Krueger, 2006).”
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism (2009, positive): “…substantive and methodological issues, including the reliability, validity, and comparability of the responses to such questions (Clark et al., 2006; DiTella and MacCulloch, 2006; Frey and Stutzer, 2002ab; Graham, forthcoming; Layard, 2005; van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2004; van Praag and…”
Suffer the little children: Measuring the effects of parenthood on well-being worldwide (2012, positive): “…by economists have investigated the impact of economic conditions and socio-demographic characteristics on subjective well-being, measured as self-reported levels of happiness or life satisfaction (e.g. Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2006, Blanchflower, 2008, Dolan et al., 2008, for recent reviews).”
Valuation Techniques for Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: (2011, positive): “If this is the case, it would mean that using fixed effects estimators would control for this effect in life satisfaction regressions (Powdthavee, 2010; Tella and MacCulloch, 2006).”
The HILDA Survey and its Contribution to Economic and Social Research (So Far) (2007, positive): “(2004), Headey and Wooden (2004), Scutella and Wooden (2006), and Ulker (2006) referred to above, as well as by Dockery (2006) in a panel study on the relationship between labour force status and mental health, by Adam and Flatau (2006) in a panel investigation into the impact of changing job insecu”