Toward National Well-Being Accounts

By Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, D. Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, Arthur A. Stone. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Capabilities and Satisfaction with Life (2007, methodology): “In a series of interesting publications with various co-authors (Kahneman et al., 2004a, 2004b; Kahneman and Krueger, 2006), Kahneman has argued that the answers to these overall questions are unlikely to provide an accurate measure of psychological feelings of well-being.”
New Evidence on Cross-Country Differences in Job Satisfaction Using Anchoring Vignettes (2008, background): “Estimation results from the standard ordered probit model con rm results from previous studies (Clark 2005, Ahn and Garcia 2004, Blanch ower and Oswald 1999, Kaiser 2002) as well as the impression from univariate comparison of histograms.”
A snapshot of the age distribution of psychological well-being in the United States (2010, background): “5, P = not significant) and lower levels of Enjoyment (F[1, 339,708] = 209.”
Personality and Subjective Well-Being (2009, background): “In fact, psychologists and economists have increasingly advocated for the implementation of large-scale surveys of well-being so that population levels can be tracked over time (Diener, 2000; Diener & Seligman, 2004; Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2003 ).”
Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill, One Step at a Time: The Impact of Regular Religious Practice and Exercise on Well-Being (2008, background): “Some evidence for the impact of small repeated events comes from the finding that commuting, a regular daily activity, is rated as a highly negative experience (Kahneman et al., 2004a), and commuting time correlates negatively with subjective well-being (Stutzer & Frey, 2004).”
AMBITION AND JEALOUSY. INCOME INTERACTIONS IN THE "OLD" EUROPE VERSUS THE "NEW" EUROPE AND (2005, neutral): “…and Stutzer, 2002), the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2006) and the American Economic Review (Frijters et al., 2004, Kahneman et al., 2004); I refer to these articles, to the recent survey by Clark et al. (2006) or to the book by van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonnel…”
Losing a Job: The Nonpecuniary Cost of Unemployment in the United States (2012, methodology): “The subjective well-being school has generally used “life satisfaction” data (Kahneman et al. 2004; Diener 2000; Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998).”
A review of air pollution impact on subjective well-being: Survey versus visual psychophysics (2018, positive): “In a recent study by Kahneman et al. (2004), the SWB for an activity can be measured as the net affect of the average of all positive affects (happy, enjoying themselves) less the average of all negative affects (Frustrated, depressed, worry) and the length of time people spending on it.”
Wealth, Warmth, and Well-Being: Whether Happiness is Relative or Absolute Depends on Whether it is about Money, Acquisition, or Consumption (2009, neutral): “…and BiswasDiener 2002; Diener et al. 1993; Diener and Seligman 2004; Easterlin 1974, 1995; Hsee, Hastie, and Chen 2008; Johnson and Krueger 2006; Kahneman et al. 2004; Layard 2005; Layard, Mayraz, and Nickell 2007; Luttmer 2005; McBride 2001; Stevenson and Wolfers 2008; Stutzer 2004; Veenhoven…”
The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness (2014, background): “9 Kahneman et al. (2004).”
Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future (2006, background): “Indeed, work is already underway to promote the idea of national well-being accounts to complement economic indicators such as the gross domestic product (Diener & Seligman, 2004; Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2004 ).”