A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method
- D. Kahneman, A. Krueger, D. Schkade, N. Schwarz, A. Stone
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 3 December 2004
The DRM's utility is shown by documenting close correspondences between the DRM reports of 909 employed women and established results from experience sampling, and an analysis of the hedonic treadmill shows its potential for well-being research.
Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change
- S. Lyubomirsky, K. Sheldon, D. Schkade
- Psychology
- 1 June 2005
The pursuit of happiness is an important goal for many people. However, surprisingly little scientific research has focused on the question of how happiness can be increased and then sustained,…
The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
- A. Krueger, D. Schkade
- PsychologyJournal of Public Economics
- 1 April 2007
Does Living in California Make People Happy? A Focusing Illusion in Judgments of Life Satisfaction
- D. Schkade, D. Kahneman
- Psychology
- 1 September 1998
Large samples of students in the Midwest and in Southern California rated satisfaction with life overall as well as with various aspects of life, for either themselves or someone similar to…
Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture
- Eric J. Johnson, S. Shu, E. Weber
- Economics
- 25 May 2012
This paper outlines the tools available to choice architects, that is anyone who present people with choices, and divides these tools into two categories: those used in structuring the choice task and Those used in describing the choice options.
Are Judges Political?: An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary
- C. Sunstein, D. Schkade, L. Ellman, Andres Sawicki
- Law
- 8 June 2006
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary. Are judges "activists"? Should they stop "legislating from the bench"? Are they…
Toward National Well-Being Accounts
- D. Kahneman, A. Krueger, D. Schkade, N. Schwarz, A. Stone
- Psychology, Economics
- 1 April 2004
Economists have traditionally eschewed direct measures of well-being on methodological grounds: the private nature of experience and the discomfort of making interpersonal comparisons. Instead,…
Economic Preferences or Attitude Expressions?: An Analysis of Dollar Responses to Public Issues
- D. Kahneman, I. Ritov, D. Schkade
- Psychology
- 1 December 1999
Participants in contingent valuation surveys and jurors setting punitive damages in civil trials provide answers denominated in dollars. These answers are better understood as expressions of…
Measuring Constructed Preferences: Towards a Building Code
- J. Payne, J. Bettman, D. Schkade
- Economics
- 1 December 1999
A "building code" for preference measurement is needed in a world in which many expressions of preference are constructed when people are asked a valuation question and how the code must be sensitive to the purpose of the valuation is discussed.
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