Do we really know what makes us happy A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being
By Paul Dolan, T. Peasgood, M. White. 2008
3,151 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Accounting, Health, Social Psychology
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In Accounting
- Anke C. Plagnol
- Martin Binder
- Alex Coad
- Robert Metcalfe
- David G. Blanchflower
- Kai Gehring
- Luca Stanca
- Tim Wadsworth
In Health
- Felicia Huppert
- David G. Blanchflower
- Olga Lorenz
- Robert Metcalfe
- Andrew J. Oswald
- Daniel Gray
- Sarah Brown
- D. Wheatley
In Social Psychology
- Anke C. Plagnol
- Felicia Huppert
- Andrew J. Oswald
- Luca Stanca
- Nattavudh Powdthavee
- Paul Dolan
- Bruno S. Frey
- Alois Stutzer
Citations in the corpus
- Marriage and Subjective Well-Being: How and Why Context Matters (2015, positive): “While the relationship between the two variables has been robust in crosssectional analyses, longitudinal studies have demonstrated that increases in income are not accompanied by increases in happiness (Dolan and Peasgood 2008).”
- Does the Internet Make People Happier (2011, neutral): “and especially the level of social capital 6 (Bornskov, 2003; Helliwell, 2003; Dolan et al., 2008; Bruni and Stanca, 2008, Sarracino, 2010).”
- Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, and Social Connectedness as Mediators of the Relationship Between Volunteering and Well-Being (2012, background): “Dolan, Peasgood, and White (2008) reviewed a wide range of economics literature and reached similar conclusions.”
- Subjective Well-Being in Adolescence: The Role of Self-Control, Social Support, Age, Gender, and Familial Crisis (2016, background): “subjective well-being were evidenced at ages younger and older than adolescence (Dolan et al. 2008). Keyes (2013) claimed that too many tasks and duties prevent American adolescents from flourishing.”
- Does commuting matter to subjective well-being? (2018, background): “the literature on subjective well-being (Dolan et al. 2008).”
- Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being (2010, background): “…surveys of the state of economic research on subjective well-being available in the form of journal articles (e.g. Di Tella and MacCulloch 2006, Dolan et al. 2008, Frey and Stutzer 2002b, 2005) and books (e.g., van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell 2004, Layard 2005, Bruni and Porta 2005, 2007,…”
- Subjective Well-Being and Social Capital in Belgian Communities. The Impact of Community Characteristics on Subjective Well-Being Indicators in Belgium (2011, background): “Previous research has indicated that unemployment levels (Oswald 1997), income levels (Clark and Oswald 1994), crime rates (Dolan et al. 2008), openness of political institutions (Frey and Stutzer 2000) and ethnic diversity within the community (Putnam 2007; Hooghe et al. 2009a) are expected to…”