Human feelings measured in integers (my happiness is an 8 out of 10, my pain 2 out of 6)
have no objective scientific basis. They are “made-up” numbers on a scale that does not …

This article reviews recent developments in the econometrics of early childhood human
capital and investments. We start with a discussion about the lack of cardinality in test …

Happiness data—survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)—have become
increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking …

We surveyed a large sample of Swedish lottery players about their psychological well-being
5–22 years after a major lottery event and analysed the data following pre-registered …

Systematic differences in the attitudes of men and women towards risk is well established. In
this paper, we investigate the joint role of two prominent psychological characteristics in …

Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment
statistics, life expectancy, and other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness …

Background The statistical evaluation of aggregation functions for trauma grades, such as
the Injury Severity Score (ISS), is largely based on measurements of their Pearson product …

The causal chain between house price variation and observable changes in economic
behavior including consumption requires that individuals perceive the impact of house price …

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be
reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness …

We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the
international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany …