Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20401
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1162
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield strikingly similar results with respect to financial satisfaction. The IEQ- approach yields additional insights, but it is not well applicable to other life domains than finance. It is argued that the usual Probit specification implies a specific cardinalization and, consequently, is less ordinal than usually thought. It is shown that the Probit-approach may be replaced by three other equivalent specifications that have some computational and intuitive advantages.
Subjects: 
financial satisfaction
income evaluation
Probit-models
cardinal utility
JEL: 
I31
H31
C25
D31
C24
I39
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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