| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w24853
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 24853
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| The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results |
| Timothy N. Bond; Kevin Lang
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| 发表日期 | 2018-07-23
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We replicate nine key results from the happiness literature: the Easterlin Paradox, the ‘U-shaped’ relation between happiness and age, the happiness trade-off between inflation and unemployment, cross-country comparisons of happiness, the impact of the Moving to Opportunity program on happiness, the impact of marriage and children on happiness, the ‘paradox’ of declining female happiness, and the effect of disability on happiness. We show that none of the findings can be obtained relying only on nonparametric identification. The findings in the literature are highly dependent on one's beliefs about the underlying distribution of happiness in society, or the social welfare function one chooses to adopt. Furthermore, any conclusions reached from these parametric approaches rely on the assumption that all individuals report their happiness in the same way. When the data permit, we test for equal reporting functions, conditional on the existence of a common cardinalization from the normal family. We reject this assumption in all cases in which we test it. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Welfare and Collective Choice
; Health, Education, and Welfare
; Poverty and Wellbeing
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24853
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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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/582527
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Timothy N. Bond,Kevin Lang. The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results. 2018.
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