Time Use and Subjective Well-Being in France and the U.S
| Autor: | David Schkade, Daniel Kahneman, Claude Fischler, Alan B. Krueger, Norbert Schwarz, Arthur A. Stone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Data collection Sociology and Political Science Recall media_common.quotation_subject Public health General Social Sciences Life satisfaction Public policy Reconstruction method Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Happiness medicine Subjective well-being Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Indicators Research. 93:7-18 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0921 0303-8300 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11205-008-9415-4 |
| Popis: | Social scientists and policymakers have long been interested in comparing the subjectivewell-being (SWB) of populations over time and across countries, although SWB is hard todefine and measure. Nevertheless, attempts have been made to rank countries based onSWB (e.g., Veenhoven 1996; OECD 2005). Cross-country data have also been used tostudy the effect on SWB of public policies, economic conditions and institutions (e.g.,Alesina et al. 2002; Frey and Stutzer 2002; Blanchflower 2007). The most commonmeasure of SWB in these studies is based on a question that asks respondents about theiroverall level of life satisfaction or happiness. Other measures of SWB include ecologicalmomentary assessment (EMA; Stone et al. 1999) and the day reconstruction method(DRM; Kahneman et al. 2004). These measures collect individuals’ time use and affectiveexperience over time, either using real-time data collection or diary recall methods. Anadvantage of such time-based SWB data is that they connect individuals’ reported SWB toactual events that occurred in their lives, but these measures have not been used previouslyin cross-country studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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