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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Oswald, Andrew J. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Wu, Stephen | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-02-23 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-07-07T12:07:00Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-07-07T12:07:00Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2010 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36221 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions - asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel - such as how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4? Yet there is little scientific evidence that such data are meaningful. This study examines a 2005-2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System random sample of 1.3 million United States citizens. Life-satisfaction in each U.S. state is measured. Across America, people's answers trace out the same pattern of quality of life as previously estimated, using solely non-subjective data, in a literature from economics (so-called 'compensating differentials' neoclassical theory due originally to Adam Smith). There is a state-by-state match (r = 0.6, p < 0.001) between subjective and objective well-being. This result has some potential to help to unify disciplines. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion Papers 4695 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I31 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Happiness | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | well-being | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | compensating differentials | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | spatial equilibrium | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lebenszufriedenheit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Gesundheit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lebensqualität | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Räumliche Verteilung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schätzung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | USA | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being: evidence from the USA | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 619072938 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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