Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18249 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 265
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a composite of various domain satisfactions (DS). We postulate a two -layer model where individual Subjective Well-Being is explained by individual subjective domain satisfactions with respect to job, finance, health, leisure, housing, and environment. We distinguish between long -term and short - term effects. Next, we explain domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for the GS and DS equations with individual random effects and fix time effects.
Subjects: 
Subjective Well-Being
satisfaction measurement
qualitative regressors
health satisfaction
job satisfaction
JEL: 
I31
C25
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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