Deconstructing the hedonic treadmill: Is happiness autoregressive?
Deconstructing the hedonic treadmill: Is happiness autoregressive?
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10.1016/j.socec.2011.01.007
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2011-05-01
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Truglia, Ricardo Perez
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Bottan, Nicolas Luis;Truglia, Ricardo Perez
情感习惯化在社会科学中已有充分记录：人们似乎适应了许多生活事件，从彩票意外之财到绝症。一组研究试图通过观察生活事件的滞后价值观如何影响当前的幸福感来衡量习惯。我们提出了一个额外的适应渠道：当前的幸福可能直接取决于过去的幸福，这相当于评估幸福是否是自回归的。我们使用来自德国社会经济面板研究、日本消费者面板调查、英国家庭面板调查和瑞士家庭面板的个人面板数据进行动态幸福回归。与之前的研究一样，滞后事件（例如失业、结婚）的系数表明有很强的习惯性。然而，所有计量经济学模型都表明，滞后幸福系数是正的且显着的。我们讨论这是否可能是幸福具有惯性力的证据（除了通常的习惯渠道）。 (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
Affective habituation is well-documented in social sciences: people seem to adapt to many life events, ranging from lottery windfalls to terminal illnesses. A group of studies have tried to measure habituation by seeing how lagged values of life events affect present happiness. We propose an additional adaptation channel: current happiness may depend directly on past happiness, which amounts to assessing whether happiness is autoregressive. We run dynamic happiness regressions using individual-level panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, the British Household Panel Survey and the Swiss Household Panel. As in previous studies, the coefficients on lagged events (e.g., becoming unemployed, getting married) suggest strong habituation. However, all the econometric models suggest that the coefficient on lagged happiness is positive and significant. We discuss whether this may be evidence of happiness having an inertial force (besides the usual habituation channel). (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.