Happiness and economics, how the economy and institutions affect well-being

By Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer. 2001

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International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “Frey and Stutzer (2002) summarized ways to validate happiness data.”
Examining the relation of religion and spirituality to subjective well-being across national cultures. (2013, background): “For example, Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004) and Frey and Stutzer (2002) showed that applying ordinal and linear modeling on such measures of subjective well-being made little difference in their results.”
National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life (2008, methodology): “For surveys of economics research using the more conventional measures of life satisfaction, see Frey and Stutzer (2002) and Layard (2005). to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being (2003, positive): “…(Tables 1 and 2), and with numerous studies that find significant negative associations between happiness and self reported health with controls for a variety of socioeconomic circumstances (Argyle, 1999, Blanchflower and Oswald, 2003, Frey and Stutzer, 2002ab, Michalos, Zumbo, and Hubley, 2000).”
Measuring Inequality of Happiness in Nations: In Search for Proper Statistics (2005, result): “The application of statistical methods that do not assume equidistance, such as ‘ordered probits’, appears to produce almost identical results (Frey & Stutzer 2002).”
The environmental efficiency of well-being: A cross-national analysis (2011, methodology): “These indicators included indexes of political rights and civil liberties, a score based on these two indexes, and a dummy variable indicating whether a country is an electoral democracy (all data are from Freedom House, 2010). The results from the Marshall et al. (2008) Polity Score were sustained;”
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China (2009, background): “Literature surveys have begun to appear, including Frey and Stutzer (2002, 2003) and Layard (2003, 2005).”