Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavuudh

doi:10.1111/j.0013-0427.2005.00429.x

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“…While the insights suggest that the fear of terror or crime has a negative impact on the physical wellbeing, there was no evidence for an influence on the psychological wellbeing, nor has fear of crime shown to decrease the overall level of happiness as discussed in prior studies (Cornaglia et al, 2004;Powdthavee, 2005;Ross, 1993;Tella et al, 2008). The insights rather echo the results of Michalos and Zumbo (2000), whose findings also could not establish a distinct relationship between crime-related issues and decreased life satisfaction.…”

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How do you fear? Examining expatriates’ perception of danger and its consequences

Faeth

Kittler

2017

JGM

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Purpose: This study investigates the differing perceptions of fear of expatriates operating in terror-exposed Nairobi and the high-crime environment of Johannesburg and its impact on stress and wellbeing. It illustrates how expatriates cope with the challenges associated with these two regions.Design, methodology, approach: Following an interpretative and inductive research approach, qualitative content analyses were conducted using evidence from in-depth interviews with twelve expatriates in senior management or officer positions within a large global organisation, with respondents based in South Africa and Kenya.Findings: Data suggest that expatriates in the more terrorism exposed context perceive fear less strongly than expatriates in environments categorised by high degrees of conventional crime.Fear seems to relate to physical wellbeing via restricted freedom of movement, but there is little evidence that fear affects mental wellbeing. The study finds that respondents in terror-exposed Nairobi tend to engage more in avoidance-oriented coping strategies, whereas their counterparts in the high-crime environment of Johannesburg predominantly rely on problemfocused coping.Originality, value: This study develops a distinction between terror and conventional crime and contributes with practical insights for assignments into dangerous work environments. The geographic lens of the study provides an in-depth look at expatriation challenges in an arguably neglected regional context. Practical implications: The qualitative design allows practitioners to better understand expatriates' perceptions of fear, its consequences for stress and wellbeing and potential coping strategies expatriates employ. It discusses a set of practical recommendations focussing on the deployment of expatriates assigned to dangerous locations.

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How do you fear? Examining expatriates’ perception of danger and its consequences

Faeth

Kittler

2017

JGM

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“…The SWB approach has previously been applied to environmental issues (e.g. Welsch 2002Welsch , 2006Rehdanz and Madison 2005;van Praag and Barsma 2005;Luechinger 2009;Ferreira and Moro 2010;Levinson 2012) and to various societal phenomena, including inflation and unemployment (Di Tella et al 2001), crime (Powdthavee 2005), civil conflict (Welsch 2008a), corruption (Welsch 2008b) and terrorism (Frey et al 2009). Since SWB regressions typically include people's income, calculating the utility-constant trade-off between income and the non-market good in question provides a tool for non-market valuation (see Welsch and Kühling 2009 for a review and discussion).…”

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Electricity supply preferences in Europe: Evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch

Biermann

2014

Resource and Energy Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. , 2002-2011, to estimate the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and production shares of various types of electricity generation. The estimated relationships are taken to represent preference relationships over attributes of electricity supply systems (costs, safety, environmental friendliness etc.). Controlling for a variety of individual and macro-level factors, we find that individuals' SWB varies systematically and significantly with differences in the electricity mix across countries and across time. Among other results, we find that a greater share of solar and wind power relative to nuclear power is associated with greater SWB and that the implied preference for solar and wind power over nuclear power has risen drastically after the Fukushima nuclear accident. In general, our results suggest that environmental and safety concerns are of major importance in European citizens' preference function over electricity supply structures. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…Local labour market conditions in turn depend on labour supply and therefore on the factors which affect household location decisions, including house prices and amenities. Following the seminal contribution by 5 Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998), Frey and Stutzer (2000), Clark and Oswald (2002), Frey, Luechinger and Stutzer (2004), Powdthavee (2005) 6 Di Tella, MacCulloch and Oswald (2001) 7 Clark (2001), Shields and Wheatley Price (2002), Kristensen and Westergård-Nielsen (2004) 8 Carlsen andJohansen (2004,2005) 9 Lévy-Garboua, Lohéac and Fayolle (2006) Roback (1982), most empirical studies of capitalization handle the two-ways causality between amenities and job opportunities by estimating two equations explaining house prices and wages as functions of amenities. The value of an amenity is imputed from the estimated coefficients of the amenity in both equations.…”

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Using survey data to study capitalization of local public services

Carlsen

Langset²,

Rattsø

et al. 2009

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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We use surveys in which respondents evaluate local amenities in Norway to compute proxy variables for the quality of local public services as well as other local amenities relevant to location decisions. Average satisfaction reported by the respondents is computed for each amenity and each municipality, adjusted for sample variation in personal characteristics and included as explanatory variables in a cross-section study of house prices. We find that house prices are increasing in satisfaction with health care, cultural activities and public transportation, suggesting that the quality of local public services indeed affects the attractiveness of a residential site. When the analysis is repeated with input measures of service levels instead of satisfaction variables, we find no effects of local public services on house prices, indicating that traditional Tiebout studies based on input measures may have underestimated the importance of local public services for location decisions.

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Cited by 175 publications

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How do you fear? Examining expatriates’ perception of danger and its consequences

How do you fear? Examining expatriates’ perception of danger and its consequences

Electricity supply preferences in Europe: Evidence from subjective well-being data

Using survey data to study capitalization of local public services

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