Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Income and Life Satisfaction in East Germany Following Reunification

By P. Frijters, John P. Haisken-DeNew, Michael A. Shields. 2004

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Relational Goods, Sociability, and Happiness (2008, neutral): “…“external” events which have been considered as determining exogenous changes in income (lottery wins, aggregate changes in real income after transition in Russia or reunification in Germany respectively, see Gardner and Oswald 2004, Frijters et al. 2004a, 2004b and 2006, Meier and Stutzer 2004).”
The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing (2012, background): “So, if innovation has direct effects on economic growth (see Galor and Tsiddon, 1997) and economic growth (or income) has direct effects on SWB (see Frijters et al., 2004; Stevenson and Wolfers, 2008), then innovation may well have causal consequences for SWB.”
The Economics of Happiness (2021, methodology): “Therefore, for an individual i observed at times t and j, if Sit > Sij, then Wit > Wij This assumption implies that measured self-reported SWB answers are reflective of the concept of welfare, which itself is “metaphysical” and unmeasurable (Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Frijters, 2004).”
Valuing scenic amenity using life satisfaction data (2011, background): “Poor health invariably lowers life satisfaction, as does unemployment (Frijters et al., 2004a, b).”
Keep it simple: estimation strategies for ordered response models with fixed effects (2014, background): “[10,11], Knabe and Rätzel [18], Clark et al.”
Can the Large Swings in Russian Life Satisfaction be Explained by Ups and Downs in Real Incomes (2006, positive): “It might well be the case that particularly dissatisfied people have a greater or lesser tendency to stay within a panel than others (Frijters et al., 2004a; Graham et al., 2004).”
An Almost Integration-free Approach to Ordered Response Models (2006, background): “Greene, W., 2005. Censored Data and Truncated Distributions, forthcoming in The Handbook of Econometrics:Vol.1, ed. T.Mills and K.Patterson, Palgrave, London. Heij C., P.de Boer, P.H.Franses, T.Kloek, H.K.van Dijk, (2005).Econometrics Methods with Applications in Business and Economics, Oxford Unive”
Is it Pleasure or Health from Leisure that We Benefit from Most? An Analysis of Well-Being Alternatives and Implications for Policy (2016, background): “Finally, papers have also examined environmental influences on well-being such as civil conflict (Welsch, 2008), German reunification (Frijters et al 2004), Russian economic transition (Frijters et al 2006) and drought (Carroll et al 2009).”
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well-Being in the United Kingdom (2011, background): “For instance, Frijters et al. (2004) report the exogenous impact German reunification had on East Germans’ SWB.”
The Set Point Theory of Well-Being Has Serious Flaws: On the Eve of a Scientific Revolution? (2010, background): “It has been shown that life satisfaction scores were ‘inflated’ that year by respondents giving their first interview ( Frijters et al. 2004 ).”
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence (2013, positive): “Some analysts, who use data that do not include the initial contraction phase of the transition mistakenly take the positive happinessincome relation in the recovery period as indicative of the long-term trend (Frijters et al. 2004, Guriev and Zhuravskaya 2009, Sanfey and Teksoz 2007).”
Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification (2008, methodology): “One exception is an econometric analysis by Frijters et al. (2004a) of life satisfaction in East Germany 1991-2001 that uses the same data source as the present study (cf. also Frijters et al., 2004b).”
Dynamics of Output Growth, Consumption and Physical Capital in Two-Sector Models of Endogenous Growth (2009, positive): “natural experiment favor are Paul Frijters et al. (2004) and Jonathan Gardner and Andrew Oswald (2007). Using a longitudinal data on life satisfaction for the East Germans, Frijters et al (2004) found a sizeable increase in life satisfaction from an exogenous increase in real income per capita as”