| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10902-011-9283-5
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| ISBN | 1389-4978
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| Happiness no matter the cost? An examination on how efficiently individuals reach their happiness levels. |
| Binder, Martin; Broekel, Tom
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| 发表日期 | 2012
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| 出处 | Journal of Happiness Studies
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| 出版者 | Springer
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| 出版年 | 2012
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| 页码 | 621-645
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Happiness measures, reflecting individuals’ well-being, have received increasing attention by policy makers. Policies could target absolute happiness levels when aiming at increasing a society’s well-being. But given upper bounds of happiness measures, as well as the possibilities of decreasing returns to happiness resources, we argue that an important measure of interest is the efficiency with which individuals convert their resources into happiness. In order to examine the effects of policies on this efficiency and to better understand the trajectories of human well-being over time, we suggest an efficiency measure that is calculated via a nonparametric order-m approach borrowed from the production efficiency literature. Our approach is exemplified using micro level data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Between 20 and 27% of the British populace are efficient in attaining happiness during our sample period. A negative influence on “happiness efficiency” is being unemployed while a positive influence is cohabitation with a partner. Our results are robust with respect to using a more comprehensive subjective well-being measure, but there are gender differences, for example in the (positive) influence that retirement has on males’ efficiency, or the (positive) influence of maternity leave on females. |
| 特色分类 | H Social Sciences
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| 关键词 | Happiness
Subjective well-being
Efficiency analysis
Hedonic adaptation
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| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40790/
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| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/466654
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Binder, Martin,Broekel, Tom. Happiness no matter the cost? An examination on how efficiently individuals reach their happiness levels.. 2012.
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