The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to analyze the factors that affect endocrine disorders in the Korean elderly. The data were taken from the A Study of the Seoul Welfare Panel Study 2010. The subjects were 2111 people (879 males, 1,232 females) aged 60 and older living in the community. The dependent variable was defined as the prevalence of endocrine disorders. The explanatory v...

In all scientific research using animals there is the potential for animal welfare to be compromised, due both to the experimental procedures themselves and to features of their husbandry and management. The Three Rs aim to minimize animal welfare compromise, ideally by replacing animal use with other methods. In situations where the use of animals is unavoidable, care is taken to reduce the nu...

Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our revi...

We introduce a framework within evolutionary game theory for studying the distinction between objective and subjective rationality and apply it to the evolution of cooperation on 3-regular random graphs. In our simulations, agents evolve misrepresentations of objective reality that help them cooperate and maintain higher social welfare in the Prisoner’s dilemma. These agents act rationally on t...

Welfare measures began to shift the condition of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). Meanwhile, welfare farmers must be prioritized, one which is fulfill their basic needs in form agricultural land. Ironically, land inequality Indonesia still quite high. This study aims see impact ownership on SWB score Indonesia. uses data from 2007 and 2014 IFLS fixed effect estimation method PSM address sellection b...

Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are ...

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?* In a new survey we ask respondents, after a standard Subjective Well‐Being (SWB) question, if they can think of changes in their lives that would improve their SWB score. If the SWB score is just one argument among others in the respondents’ goals in life, they should easily find ways to improve it, at the expense of other dimensions they...

We measure the earnings and welfare losses experienced by displaced employees of the Ecuadorian Central Bank (BCE), and link these losses to individual characteristics such as age, gender, education, seniority and wage in the public sector. Data are from a survey of BCE employees we ran fifteen to eighteen months after separation, including subjective evaluations of well-being in addition to in...