Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility

By Alois Stutzer. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Good Governance and Happiness in Nations: Technical Quality Precedes Democracy and Quality Beats Size (2010, background): “As pointed out by Frey and Stutzer (2005) participation in elections (voice) contributes to happiness, independent of the outcomes.”
Involuntary Temporary and Part-Time Work, Job Quality and Well-Being at Work (2015, background): “…received in the economics of happiness literature is the notion of procedural utility, which means that people do not care only about the outcomes, such as pay and hours of work, but also about the conditions and processes leading to such outcomes (European Commission 2008; Frey and Stutzer 2004).”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, unknown): “…‘‘happiness’’) has been intensively studied in recent years and is linked to a range of determinants that seem to reliably influence it the world over (Frey and Stutzer 2002, 2005; Dolan et al. 2008; Graham 2009; Layard et al. 2012): opportunities for gainful employment and work organization are…”
Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence (2010, unknown): “Following Helliwell (2006), our baseline specification also includes a measure of how strongly people believe in god (expressed by the national percentage answering ‘yes’ to the question “Do you believe in a superior being”), which might also be considered as a type of informal institution (cf.”
The economic conception of water (2005, background): “47 What Frey & Stutzer (2005) refer to as procedural utility can be represented by this model.”
Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match (2010, unknown): “Yet, individuals do not only derive satisfaction from outcomes, but probably compare themselves to others, and also enjoy ‘procedural utility’ (Veblen 1899, Fehr and Schmidt, 1999; Frey and Stutzer, 2005).”
Happiness and public choice (2010, background): “…subjected to different political and societal procedures; in organizations, as employees confronted with different organizational procedures; and in law, as litigants (for an introductory survey, see Frey et al. 2004, and for an application to democracy, see Frey and Stutzer 2005; Olken 2008).”
A tractable model of process fairness under risk (2009, background): “In many settings, however, agents care about the fairness of the process that generates and implements the outcomes (Brockner, 2006; Cohen-Charash & Spector, 2001; Frey & Stutzer, 2005; Sondak & Tyler, 2007; Tyler & Lind, 2000; van den Bos, 2001; van den Bos et al., 1997).”