This research is part of umbrella study entitled “The Impact the 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami on Family Socio-Economic Vulnerability and Achievement SDGs Welfare”. aims to analyze family characteristics, objective economic pressures, livelihood strategies, subjective-economic welfare for survivors disaster in Banten. The method used a cross-sectional involving 60 samples selected by simple random ...

We argue that subjective insecurity plays an important role in explaining welfare chauvinism, which is defined as the restriction of immigrants' access to social benefits and public services. Additionally, macroeconomic performance regime are closely related opinions about rights migrant groups. test these propositions, using a multilevel ordered logit model 8th wave ESS. It found unemployment ...

The broad concept of an individual's welfare is actually a cluster of related speci c concepts that bear a \family resemblance" to one another. One might care about how a policy will a ect people both in terms of their subjective preferences and also in terms of some notion of their objective interests. This paper provides a framework for evaluation of policies in terms of welfare criteria that...

We show that individuals’ desire to protect their self-esteem against ego-threatening feedback can mitigate moral hazard in environments with purely subjective performance evaluations. In line with evidence from social psychology we assume that agents’ react aggressively to evaluations by the principal which do not coincide with their own positive self-perceptions and thereby generate costs of ...

The study of individual happiness has enriched economics with many new and sometimes challenging (preliminary) insights.1 More and more often, it is asked about the policy consequences that are to be derived from these insights. We observe that economic research on happiness has an explicit or implicit tendency to follow a “benevolent dictator” approach where the government, and individual poli...

Using panel data spanning 15 years, this paper investigates the persistence and correlates of subjective and consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite the decline in consumption poverty in recent years, which has been linked to rapid economic growth, subjective poverty has remained largely unchanged. Dynamic probit regression results show that households with a history of past poverty cont...

Young adolescents are quickly becoming avid users of social networking sites (SNSs); however, little is known regarding how they use these sites. The goal of the present study was to examine the extent to which young adolescents use SNSs, with whom they connect via these sites, and whether SNS use disrupts daily functioning. Among 268 middle-school students surveyed, 63% reported having their o...