Arbeitspapier

Asking about changes in happiness in a daily web survey

This paper investigates whether the level of happiness and integrated process of changes in happiness are the same. Using the daily data of two waves of four and six months each, we found that the level of happiness is stationary, whereas the integrated process of changes is non-stationary with a rising trend, implying that they are different series. An examination of the causes of the difference indicated that although adaptation completely influences the level of happiness, it only partially influences the change in happiness. This may be because the latter is based on a comparison between today and yesterday.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 813

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Thema
change in happiness
Easterlin paradox
daily web survey
adaptation
Zufriedenheit
Befragung

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Tsutsui, Yoshiro
Ohtake, Fumio
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(wo)
Osaka
(wann)
2011

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Tsutsui, Yoshiro
  • Ohtake, Fumio
  • Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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