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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21098
来源ID	Working Paper 21098
	The Half-Life of Happiness: Hedonic Adaptation in the Subjective Well-Being of Poor Slum Dwellers to a Large Improvement in Housing
	Sebastian Galiani; Paul J. Gertler; Raimundo Undurraga
发表日期	2015-04-20
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Subjective well-being may not improve in step with increases in material well-being due to hedonic adaptation, a psychological process that attenuates the long-term emotional impact of a favorable or unfavorable change in circumstances, such that people’s happiness eventually returns to a stable reference level. We use a multi-country field experiment to examine the impact of the provision of improved housing to extremely poor populations on subjective measures of well-being to test whether poor populations exhibit hedonic adaptation when their basic housing needs are met. After sixteen months, we find that subjective perceptions of well-being improve substantially for recipients of better housing but that after, on average, eight additional months, 60% of that gain disappears.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21098
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/578773
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sebastian Galiani,Paul J. Gertler,Raimundo Undurraga. The Half-Life of Happiness: Hedonic Adaptation in the Subjective Well-Being of Poor Slum Dwellers to a Large Improvement in Housing. 2015.