Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

By Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee. The Journal of Legal Studies, 2008

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Dynamics of Output Growth, Consumption and Physical Capital in Two-Sector Models of Endogenous Growth (2009, unknown): “…concerns the way income is normally used in cost-benefit analysis – i.e., in the calculation of compensatory damages through the application of happiness equations (see, for example, Van Praag and Baarsma, 2005; Frey et al, 2007; Dolan and White, 2007; Oswald and Powdthavee, 2008; Sunstein, 2007).”
A test for the convexity of human well-being over the life cycle: Longitudinal evidence from a 20-year panel (2011, unknown): “…has been found both for developed countries (Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004; Clark and Oswald, 1996; Di Tella et al., 2001, 2003; Oswald, 1994; Oswald and Powdthavee, 2007, 2008a,b; Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998), as well as for transitioning and developing countries (Fafchamps and Shilpi,…”
Valuation Techniques for Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: (2011, background): “Finding instruments for income is notoriously hard since it is difficult to identify variables that are correlated with income and not the determinants of life satisfaction that rest unobserved in the error term (for further discussion see Dolan and Metcalfe (2008) and Oswald and Powdthavee (2008)).”
Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges (2008, unknown): “Posner and Sunstein (2005) discuss similar ideas.”