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dc.contributor.authorHeadey, Bruceen
dc.contributor.authorMuffels, Ruuden
dc.contributor.authorWooden, Marken
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:14:21Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:14:21Z-
dc.date.issued2004-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20471-
dc.description.abstractThe accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-beinghas a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB).This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships with household income. The paperuses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany,Hungary and the Netherlands – to provide a reconsideration of the impact of economic wellbeingon happiness. The main conclusion is that happiness is considerably more affected byeconomic circumstances than previously believed. In all five countries wealth affects lifesatisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available(Britain and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least asimportant to happiness as income. Further, results from panel regression fixed effects modelsindicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce significant, though notlarge, changes in satisfaction levels.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1218en
dc.subject.jelD19en
dc.subject.jelD31en
dc.subject.jelI31en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordconsumptionen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic well-beingen
dc.subject.keywordincomeen
dc.subject.keywordlife satisfactionen
dc.subject.keywordsubjective wellbeingen
dc.subject.keywordwealthen
dc.subject.stwLebensstandarden
dc.subject.stwLebensqualitäten
dc.subject.stwEinkommenen
dc.subject.stwVermögenen
dc.subject.stwKonsumgesellschaften
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwAustralienen
dc.subject.stwGrossbritannienen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.subject.stwUngarnen
dc.subject.stwNiederlandeen
dc.subject.stwLebenszufriedenheiten
dc.titleMoney Doesn?t Buy Happiness ... Or Does It? : A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn39264729Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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