Much progress has been made in recent years in developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on satisfaction with income and with life in general. In this paper we apply this new type of measurement to the study of money illusion. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1993 to 2003, we cannot reject the hypothesis of no money illusion. JEL Cla...

One-fifth of US high school students report being bullied each year. We use internet search data for real-time tracking bullying patterns as COVID-19 disrupted in-person schooling. first show that pre-pandemic searches contain useful information about actual behavior. then and cyberbullying dropped 30–35 percent schools shifted to remote learning in spring 2020. The gradual return instruction s...

The continuation of work that undermines employee well-being necessitates an investigation into the antecedents design. Therefore, we examined how autonomy supportive and controlling leadership—as defined in self-determination theory (SDT)—relate to employees’ job resources, demands, well-being. Using a cross-sectional ( N = 501) daily diary study 123), found leadership relates engagement via r...

This article aims to compare the change of living standard in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after joining European Union. The characteristics are analyzing before EU 2004. It is also compared changes economic crisis. Indicators standard, such as average monthly gross wages, consumer price index, purchasing power, unemployment rate, at-risk-of-poverty rate others calculated compared. three Balti...

Friedrich Hayek argumentó que el intervencionismo manipula “conocimiento local” dentro de la sociedad, lo cual es perjudicial para su economía. Tras una explicación sobre cómo puede alterar carácter las personas, este artículo se enfoca en manipulación del conocimiento local ciudad a través “planificación urbana racionalista” particular. Después contextualizar debate entre Jane Jacobs y Robert ...

This study analyses the physical stature of runaway apprentices and military deserters based on advertisements collected from 18-century newspapers, in order to explore the biological welfare of colonial and early-national Americans. The results indicate that heights declined somewhat at mid-century, but increased substantially thereafter. The findings are generally in keeping with trends in mo...

Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top bureaucrats are more constrained in direct democracies and have to be compensated by higher wages for that loss of power. In the second part, we d...

Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have lower international migration desires. At the individual level, the SWB-migration relationship appears t...

Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households’ willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because it increases the time available for leisure and reduces interand intra-household conflicts on water matters, leading to sustaine...

I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry, afraid) as an affective measure...