Happiness Quantified A Satisfaction Calculus Approach

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A Satisfaction Calculus Approach

PRAAG BERNARD M. S(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 27. Dezember 2007

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Intro
Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Satisfaction
1.2. Satisfaction and Norms
1.3. Domain Satisfactions
1.4. General Satisfaction and Domain Satisfactions
1.5. Plan of this Book
2. The Analysis of Income Satisfaction with an Application to Family Equivalence Scales
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The Income-Satisfaction Question
2.3. A Methodological Digression
2.4. The Economic Interpretation
2.5. Implicit Cardinalization
2.6. Probit-adapted OLS
2.7. Cardinal Approach (CP and COLS)
2.8. The Income-Evaluation Question (IEQ)
2.9. Conclusions
3. Domain Satisfactions
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Secondary Analysis: Methodological Considerations
3.2.1. Fixed or Random Individual Effects?
3.3. Secondary Analysis: Findings
3.3.1. Health Satisfaction
3.3.2. Job Satisfaction
3.3.3. Financial Satisfaction
3.3.4. Housing Satisfaction
3.3.5. Leisure Satisfaction
3.3.6. Environmental Satisfaction in Germany
3.3.7. Satisfaction with Social Life in the UK
3.3.8. Marriage
3.4. The Relation between POLS and COLS Effect Estimates
3.5. Conclusion
Appendix 3a. Variables Description for GSOEP
Appendix 3b. Variables Description for BHPS
4. The Aggregation of Satisfactions: General Satisfaction as an Aggregate
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The Predictive (Orthodox) Approach
4.3. The Aggregating Approach
4.4. A Breakdown of Job Satisfaction
4.5. Conclusion
5. Political Satisfaction
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The Data Set
5.3. Political Domain Satisfactions Explained
5.4. Political Satisfaction
5.5. The Relation between Political Satisfaction and General Satisfaction
5.6. Conclusion
6. Males, Females, and Households
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Model and Estimation
6.3. Domain and General Satisfaction Differences between Male and Female
6.4. Covariance between Satisfactions of the Two Partners in the Household
6.5. Conclusion
7. The Impact of Past and Future on Present Satisfaction
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The Model and its Operationalization
7.3. The Model Estimated
7.4. Applications
7.5. Conclusion
8. The Influence of the Reference Group on our Norms
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Straightforward Approaches
8.3. Social Filter Theory
8.4. Social Reference Spaces
8.5. Discussion
9. Health and Subjective Well-being
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Methodology and Satisfaction Estimates
9.3. Monetary Valuation of Illnesses
9.4. Discussion of the Method
9.5. Other Methods in the Health Economics Literature
9.6. A Simple Operationalization of the QALY Concept
9.7. QALY Estimates of Health Losses
9.8. Discussion
9.9. Conclusion
10. The Effects of Climate on Welfare and Well-being-External Effects
10.1. Introduction
10.2. The Effect of Climate on Household Cost
10.3. The Effect of Climate on Household Costs Measured by Income Evaluation
10.4. The Effects of Climate on Household Costs and Well-being in Russia
10.5. Climate Equivalence Scales Reconsidered with Income Climate-dependent
10.6. Conclusion
11. How to Find Compensations for Aircraft Noise Nuisance
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Short Survey of the Literature
11.3. The Data
11.4. The Model Estimated
11.5. The Resulting Compensation Schedule
11.6. Discussion and Conclusion
12. Taxation and Well-being
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Income Taxation on the Basis of Utility Sacrifices
12.3. Data and Operationalization
12.4. The Results: Tax Rates
12.5. Conclusion
13. Subjective Income Inequalities
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Income Satisfaction Inequality
13.3. Welfare Inequality Derived from the Income Equality Question and the Individual Welfare Function
13.4. Conclusion
14. A Generalized Approach to Subjective Inequalities
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Simultaneous Inequalities
14.3. Discussion and Conclusions
15. Poverty
15.1. Introduction
15.2. The Concept of a Poverty Line
15.3. Poverty Line Definitions
15.3.1. The Relative Approaches
15.3.2. The Absolute Approaches
15.3.3. Subjective Poverty Definitions
15.4. Equivalence Scales
15.4.1. One-dimensional Equivalence Scales
15.5. Multi-dimensional Equivalence Scales
15.6. Poverty Lines and Equivalence Scales Compared
15.7. Other Poverty Definitions, with an Excursion to Russia
15.8. Conclusion
16. Multi-dimensional Poverty
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Prediction of Poverty
16.3 Persistent and Transitory Poverty
16.4 Application to Poverty Alleviation
16.5 Conclusions
17. Epilogue
17.1 What Did We Find?
17.2 What Lies Ahead?
17.3 The Relevance of the Neoclassical Equilibrium Assumption
17.4 The Need to Join with Sister disciplines
17.5 Conclusion
References
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