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Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis

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  • Lee, Wang-Sheng

    (Monash University)

  • Oguzoglu, Umut

    (University of Manitoba)

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The aim of this paper is to estimate in a multivariate context the factors associated with well-being and ill-being without making the assumptions that they are opposite ends of the same continuum, and that the factors uniformly affect both well-being and ill-being. Using the first five waves of panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, we jointly model positive and negative well-being in a two-equation dynamic panel data model. We found that while past ill-being had significant effect on current well-being there was no support for a reverse relationship (i.e. lagged effect of well-being on current ill-being). In addition, we also found support for asymmetry in how certain factors affect well-being and ill-being. The implication of the findings in this paper for the happiness literature is that for future empirical work, it would perhaps more prudent to begin with the notion that well-being and ill-being are distinct dimensions, that the unobservables that affect well-being and ill-being are correlated, and to specify econometric models that allow for these concepts to be reflected.

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  • Lee, Wang-Sheng & Oguzoglu, Umut, 2007. "Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis," IZA Discussion Papers 3108, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    Keywords

    well-being; happiness; ill-being; dynamic panel models; bivariate probit;
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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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