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Psychologists and economists take contradictory approaches to research on what psychologists call happiness or subjective well-being, and economists call subjective utility. A direct test of the most widely accepted psychological theory, set-point theory, shows it to be flawed. Results are then given, using the economists’ newer “choice approach”—an approach also favored by positive psychologists—which ...
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
107 (2010), 42, 17922-17926
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of work, social participation and healthy lifestyle have substantial and similar effects ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
112 (2013), 3, 725-748
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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2006,
(mimeo)
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Markus H. Hahn
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This paper outlines a panel data retrieval program written for Stata/SE 10 or better, which allows easier accessing of complex panel data sets. Using a drop-down menu and mouse click system, the researcher selects variables from any and all available years of a panel study. The data is automatically retrieved and merged to form a “long file”, which can be directly used by the Stata panel estimators. ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
130 (2010), 4, 643-654
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Markus H. Hahn
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1996,
(Economic Bulletin)
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Gustav A. Horn, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Using data from the SOEP, we analyze the wellbeing impact of underemployment through overeducation to examine a broader definition of employment loss. Persons leaving a job through exogenous reasons but entering directly into immediate employment may not find a perfect employment match and cannot use their skills fully in the new job. We demonstrate that a „downchange“, although welfare reducing, may ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2013,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #423)
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Jan Kleibrink
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In:
Economic Bulletin
38 (2001), 12, 409-412
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Rainer Pischner, Gert G. Wagner
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München:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät,
1995,
(Discussion Paper No. 95-04)
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Christoph M. Schmidt
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
1999,
(IZA DP No. 98)
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Christoph M. Schmidt
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Berlin:
2001,
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Christoph M. Schmidt