Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina

Kimball, Miles S.; Levy, Helen; Ohtake, Fumio; Tsutsui, Yoshiro

doi:10.3386/w12062

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“…Second, resources for compensating mental suffering should be concentrated on persons living in the disaster area. This result stands in sharp contrast to prior reports that bad news in a region affects the happiness of residents of distant areas, as in the cases of Hurricane Katrina by Kimball et al (2006) and the 9/11…”

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“…For example, in the case of a well-known disaster of Hurricane Katrina, as far as we know, there have been no studies that provide monetary estimates of psychological suffering, and only a few studies such as Kimball et al (2006), Rateau (2009), Rhodes (2010), andLaJoie et al (2010) have addressed well-being after the disaster. Luechinger and Raschky (2009) and Kountouris and Remoundou (2011) are the scarce examples of monetary evaluations of psychological suffering from natural disasters through the experienced utility approach.…”

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“…Kimball et al (2006) reported that after Hurricane Katrina, the happiness levels of Americans went back to the previous levels in three months at the longest.…”

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Appraising the Unhappiness Due to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evidence From Weekly Panel Data on Subjective Well-Being

Ohtake

Yamada

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractAfter severe disasters, persons living not only in the directly affected areas, but also in distant areas could be seriously affected thorough images of the disaster on television and in newspapers. Hence, it can be difficult to define qualified beneficiaries for policy compensation in terms of psychological suffering. Building on the case of Great East Japan Earthquake, we appraise psychological suffering from disaster-related news through the experienced utility approach. We take advantage of the serendipitous timing of our original nationwide weekly panel survey that became a timely investigation of subjective well-being in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. Although a pale was cast over the whole society, we found that there was a robust and large geographical heterogeneity between the disaster area and non-disaster areas in mental costs. This finding may capture the focusing effect, suggesting that resources for compensating mental suffering should be concentrated on persons living in the disaster area.Keywords: Great East Japan Earthquake, subjective well-being, experienced utility approach, focusing effect, high frequency panel data JEL classifications: I31 H56 D61

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2013

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“…An instrumental variable (IV) approach follows recent studies that exploit the quasi-randomness of the interview date as the basis of exogenous variation in the variable of interest. Yet, in contrast to the event-focused studies of, e.g., Kimball et al (2006), Metcalfe, Powdthavee andDolan (2011), Schueller (2012) or Goebel et al (2013), the present study does not investigate a historical event for its own sake but exploits it as an instrument. Because interviewers and interviewees do not arrange their interview date in anticipation of political events, it is safe to assume that respondents are randomly affected in their level of concern by the political development and its media coverage.…”

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Concerns about the Euro and happiness in Germany during times of crisis

Chadi

2015

European Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Abstract:This empirical study investigates if people's concerns about the euro currency affect their life satisfaction. A minority of very concerned individuals appear to be unhappy, which cannot be explained by personality or other observable factors typically affecting well-being. As a novelty, this investigation exploits exogenous variation in reported concerns by using the intensity of media coverage on the euro crisis with its extraordinary events throughout the year 2011 as an instrument. Results from the application of several empirical approaches confirm that there is an effect from being concerned about the euro on people's satisfaction with life. The first potential explanation is that perceived economic insecurity works as a transmission channel, but this is not fully supported by the empirical evidence. A second explanation suggests that political beliefs and euro-skeptic attitudes are at play and may trigger unhappiness as a consequence of a perceived lack of representation in German politics. In line with this argument, a regional analysis links the variation in unhappiness among concerned citizens to the actual votes for Germany's first major anti-euro party in the subsequent federal elections. JEL Classification Codes:D72, H11, I31

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“…11 Our brief description in this section of the SOC design and methodology is based on the documentation available on the SOC website (www.sca.isr.umich.edu), as well as on Singer (2000, 2005), Kimball, Levy, Ohtake, and Tsutsui (2006), and our conversations with Survey Research Center researchers. 12 For budgetary reasons, the happiness question was not asked in reinterviews from September 2005 to January 2006.…”

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Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents

Heffetz

Rabin

2012

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A growing literature explores differences in subjective well-being across demographic groups, often relying on surveys with high nonresponse rates. By using the reported number of call attempts made to participants in the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers, we show that comparisons among easy-to-reach respondents differ from comparisons among hard-to-reach ones. Notably, easy-to-reach women are happier than easy-to-reach men, but hard-to-reach men are happier than hard-to-reach women, and conclusions of a survey could reverse with more attempted calls. Better alternatives to comparing group sample averages might include putting greater weight on hard-to-reach respondents or even extrapolating trends in responses.Keywords nonresponse bias; selection bias; happiness; surveys In the literature studying the determinants of subjective well-being, much of the evidence is based on surveys with significant and growing nonresponse rates. 1 Except for some checks, such as verifying that the demographics of respondents match the general population, happiness researchers have for the most part had to live with the potential selection bias. This paper takes advantage of a variable collected in a prominent telephone survey-the University of Michigan's "Surveys of Consumers" (SOC)-to shed some light on the existence and nature of such selection bias, as well as on a potential way of mitigating it.* We thank Angus Deaton, Winston Lin, Edward Miguel, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Justin Wolfers, and seminar participants at RAND and LSE for useful discussions and comments; Miles Kimball and Noah Smith for their help with the data; and three anonymous referees for suggestions that improved the paper.

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Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina

Cited by 56 publications

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Appraising the Unhappiness Due to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evidence From Weekly Panel Data on Subjective Well-Being

Appraising the Unhappiness Due to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evidence From Weekly Panel Data on Subjective Well-Being

Concerns about the Euro and happiness in Germany during times of crisis

Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents

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