Religiosity, Economics and Life Satisfaction

Greene, Kenneth V.; Yoon, Bong Joon

doi:10.1080/00346760410001684460

Cited by 68 publications

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“…This fits remarkably well with the insights from our model, namely, that the productively disadvantaged have to be specially compensated. While Ellison's survey is based in the US, Greene and Yoon (2004) find similar results for Europe as well. They examine the impact of religiosity on life-satisfaction in Europe.…”

Section: Life-satisfaction and Happinesssupporting

confidence: 52%

Mitigating the Shadow of Conflict - The Role of Social and Human Capital for the Reduction of Conflicts

Schmidt

2007

SSRN Journal

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One possible solution to mitigate the negative influences of conflict which has been proposed in the literature is to subject the relevant parties to education. Education can take two forms: increasing an individual's human capital on the one hand, increasing her social capital on the other hand. Using a stylized model of a two-individual economy, we derive that increasing an individual's social capital will lead her to reduce her conflict effort, whereas increasing her human capital can induce her to increase her conflict effort. We then analyze which conditions need to be present to induce the individuals to invest into their social capital.

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Section: Life-satisfaction and Happinesssupporting

confidence: 52%

Mitigating the Shadow of Conflict - The Role of Social and Human Capital for the Reduction of Conflicts

Schmidt

2007

SSRN Journal

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“…Regarding internal religiosity, positive correlations with various measures of SWB have been documented (Pollner, 1989). The same holds for the frequency of church attendance (or external religiosity) being positively correlated with reported happiness (e.g., Greene & Yoon, 2004). An interesting link to research on adaptation emerges, as people who report a religious denomination seem to suffer less from adverse life events than people who report not to belong to a religion.…”

Section: D) Social Factorsmentioning

confidence: 63%

Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness

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Stutzer

2014

Stability of Happiness

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Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness *Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people are not indifferent to adverse living conditions when reporting their subjective well-being as observed for limited freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to life events and (external) conditions reveals substantial heterogeneity in the speed as well as the degree of reversion. Together, the evidence suggests that reported subjective well-being is a valuable complementary source of information about human well-being and the phenomenon of adaptation. Many challenges, of course, remain. First, we are only at the beginning of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a productive perspective. Second, adaptation might well pose a challenge to individual decision-making when people are not good in predicting it. Third, adaptation might have great consequences for public policy and the idea of social welfare maximization depending on how fast and slow adapting people are treated. JEL Classification:D03, D60, I31

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“…Greene and Yoon [52] used a large individual data set from the Euro Barometer Survey and found that an individual's life satisfaction is positively related to measures of strong religious attachment in the sense of being willing to commit to attending religious services frequently. With a nationally representative sample of non-institutionalized US adults, Maselko and Kubansky [67] found that weekly public religious activity was significantly associated with better health and well-being.…”

Section: Associations Among Qol Swb and Religiositymentioning

confidence: 99%