Understanding fixed effects in human well-being

- 1 - Understanding Fixed Effects in Human Well - Being

In studies of subjective well-being, economists and other researchers typically use a fixed or random effect estimation to control for unobservable heterogeneity across individuals. Such individual heterogeneity, although substantially reducing the estimated effect of many characteristics, is little understood. This paper shows that personality measures can account for 20% of this heterogeneity...

Understanding Human Well - being

Viewpoint: Measuring and understanding subjective well-being

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. We describe the main measures of subjective well-being (SWB) and provide examples of policy-relevant research findings, including new accou...

Understanding Atomic Interactions to Achieve Well-being.

Voltage-gated sodium channels are among the most active and ubiquitous molecular machines found in animals. Residing in the cell membranes of excitable and other cells, they derive energy for their opening and closing from changes in membrane potential. In some cells, particularly those in sensory information–encoding structures of the central and peripheral nervous systems, these changes take ...

Understanding well-being in the evolutionary context of brain development.

Much of the work on well-being and positive emotions has tended to focus on the adult, partly because this is when problems are manifest and well-being often becomes an issue by its absence. However, it is pertinent to ask if early life events might engender certain predispositions that have consequences for adult well-being. The human brain undergoes much of its growth and development postnata...