How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness

By Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, P. Frijters. 2004

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Willingness to pay for energy-saving measures in residential buildings (2007, background): “7 See Hsiao (1986) and Greene (2003) for more details about the fixed-effects logit model and Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004) for an application.”
The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism (2009, result): “However, in many applications, similar results are obtained when interpreting life satisfaction scores in cardinal terms (Frey and Stutzer 2000; Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters 2004).”
AMBITION AND JEALOUSY. INCOME INTERACTIONS IN THE "OLD" EUROPE VERSUS THE "NEW" EUROPE AND (2005, neutral): “Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004) show that controlling for fixed effects is more important than respecting the ordinality of the variables.”
The GDP paradox (2009, background): “A recent empirical study by Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004) concludes, on the basis of an analysis of the effect of this attitude, that the belief that ‘‘being rich makes people happy” can better be replaced by ‘‘happy people are more likely to be rich”.”
Financial satisfaction over the life course: The influence of assets and liabilities (2011, positive): “Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004) show that ordinal and cardinal estimations, such as the fixed effects estimation used here, usually yield very similar results.”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, positive): “…satisfied are you today with the 8 We treat this measure as cardinal at various instances throughout our analysis since it was shown in the literature that this does not alter findings substantially and it allows us to use a fixed-effects regression framework Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004).”
Positive employee attitudes: How much human resource management do you need? (2013, background): “and their ratings of the more general attitudes are driven by unobservable traits, such as the common influence of personality (Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters, 2004; Lykken and Tellegen, 1996).”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “All of them conclude to the positive correlation between change in real income and change in happiness (see, for example, Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998; Ravallion and Lokshin, 2002; Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters, 2004; Senik, 2004, 2008; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2005; Clark et al., 2005).”