Arbeitspapier
Does Watching TV Make Us Happy?
The paper studies a major human activity - that of watching TV - where many individuals have incomplete control over, and foresight into, their own behavior. As a consequence, they watch more TV than they consider optimal for themselves and their well-being is lower than what could be achieved. Mainly people with significant opportunity costs of time regret the amount of time spent watching TV. They report lower subjective well-being when watching TV for many hours. For others, there is no negative effect on life satisfaction from watching TV. Long hours spent in front of a TV are linked to higher material aspirations and anxiety and therewith lower life satisfaction.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2005-15
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
General Welfare; Well-Being
- Thema
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Life satisfaction
mispredicting utility
revealed behavior
self-control problem
TV consumption
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Frey, Bruno S.
Benesch, Christine
Stutzer, Alois
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
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Basel
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2005
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Frey, Bruno S.
- Benesch, Christine
- Stutzer, Alois
- Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
Entstanden
- 2005
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