Putting a price tag on friends, relatives, and neighbours: Using surveys of life satisfaction to value social relationships

By Nattavudh Powdthavee. 2008

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Dynamics of Output Growth, Consumption and Physical Capital in Two-Sector Models of Endogenous Growth (2009, neutral): “See an analysis by Powdthavee (2008) for a recent British example of parents and non-”
International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “…and Marmot (2005), Gilbert (2006), Welsch (2006), Grant, Christianson , and Price (2007), Dolan, Peasgood, and White (2008), Napier and Jost (2008), Powdthavee (2008), Stevenson and Wolfers (2008), Graham (2009), Daly and Wilson (2009), Devoe and Pfeffer (2009), Luechinger (2009), Daly et al.…”
Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction (2011, background): “It therefore seems important to understand why some people place such a high value on income, in spite of research showing that both psychological therapy (Boyce & Wood, forthcoming) and social relationships (Powdthavee, 2008) have a comparatively higher effect on well-being.”
How’s Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness (2017, neutral): “Although both friends and marriage are among the longest-standing and strongest independent correlates of life satisfaction (e.g. Myers 2000; Powdthavee 2008), there has been no study of the possibility of interactions between marriage and friendship as sources of life satisfaction.”
Valuation Techniques for Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: (2011, methodology): “Dolan and Metcalfe (2008) and Oswald and Powdthavee (2008) are the only studies in which the explanatory variable of key interest is likely to be exogenous.”
Using wellbeing for public policy: Theory, measurement, and recommendations (2016, background): “Trust plays a key role in building social capital (Meier & Stutzer, 2008; Powdthavee, 2008; Putnam, 2000).”