| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16489 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16489 |
| Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys | |
| Daniel J. Benjamin; Ori Heffetz; Miles S. Kimball; Alex Rees-Jones | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-10-21 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Are subjective well-being (SWB) measures a good empirical proxy for utility? We evaluate one necessary assumption: that people's preferences coincide with what they predict will maximize their SWB. Our method is to present survey respondents with hypothetical scenarios and elicit both choice and predicted SWB rankings of two alternatives. While choice and predicted SWB rankings usually coincide, we find systematic reversals. Furthermore, we identify factors--such as predicted sense of purpose, control over one's life, family happiness, and social status--that help explain choice controlling for predicted SWB. We explore how our findings vary with the SWB measure and the choice situation. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Welfare and Collective Choice |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16489 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574163 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel J. Benjamin,Ori Heffetz,Miles S. Kimball,et al. Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys. 2010. |
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