Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/124911
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9396
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are uncorrelated with the objective quality-of-life ranking of the fifty states in the United States, the measure of meaningfulness shows a significant correlation with objective ranking. The reason for the significant correlation between the measure of meaningfulness and the objective measure of well-being is because, when engaged in similar activities, people living in states with better quality of life felt, after controlling for their individual characteristics, their lives to be more meaningful than those living in states with poor amenities, not because time use varies substantially by state.
Subjects: 
time use
subjective well-being
U-index
net affect
meaningfulness
JEL: 
I31
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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