“...Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret happiness scores as cardinal and comparable across respondents, and thus run OLS regressions on happiness and...”

“...This book deals with satisfaction analysis, the way humans evaluate many aspects of their situation. It focuses on that which precedes decision taking, i.e.,...”

“...People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains...”

“...This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents...”

“...There is enough evidence to be confident that individuals are able and willing to provide a meaningful answer when asked to value on a finite scale their...”

“...From the stated price of a specified lottery in three unrelated surveys we deduce individuals' Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion. We find that risk aversion...”

“...This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We...”

“...We replicate Shaw (J Labor Econ 14(4):626-653, 1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking...”

“...This paper presents an econometric study dealing with household demand for energy in the Netherlands. The main objective of the paper is to present an...”