Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246496 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP21/23
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper uses the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the relationship between victimisation and several measures of subjective well-being. Using person fixed effects models, I find that being attacked or insulted both significantly reduce well-being at the mean, with no significant differences between men and women in the effect size. Next, using unconditional quantile regression with fixed effects models, I identify the highly heterogeneous effects of victimisation along the unconditional well-being distribution. The effect of victimisation on subjective wellbeing is monotonically decreasing, with those at 'worse' quantiles of the well-being distribution experiencing the largest falls in well-being, and those at the 'better' quantiles of the distribution experiencing the smallest falls.
Subjects: 
Victimisation
Subjective Well-Being
JEL: 
I31
J00
J17
C21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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