The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being

Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a composite of various domain satisfactions (DS). We postulate a two -layer model where individual Subjective Well-Being is explained by individual subjective domain satisfactions with respect to job, finance, health, leisure, housing, and environment. We distinguish between long -term and short - term effects. Next, we explain domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for the GS and DS equations with individual random effects and fix time effects.Subjective Well-Being, satisfaction measurement, qualitative regressors, health satisfaction, job satisfaction

A Structural Model of Well-being: with an application to German Data

In this paper we attempt to explain individual, ordinally comparable,satisfaction levels. We postulate a simultaneous equation model where general satisfaction is explained by exogenous shock and level variables, and by the values of the satisfactions with respect to six distinct endogenous domains of life. Taking into account that these satisfactions were categorically measured and allowing for individual effects, the model was estimated on six consecutive waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. The results are statistically very significant and plausible.The main conclusions of this paper are:given the fact that we get stable significant and intuitively interpretable results, the assumption of interpersonal (ordinal) comparability of satisfactions cannot be rejected on the grounds that it leads to insignificant or implausible results;It is possible to explain satisfactions to a large extent by objectively measurable variables;Domain Satisfactions are strongly interrelated because of common explanatory variables;General Satisfaction may be seen as an aggregate of the six domain satisfactions

The Anatomy of Subjective Well-being

This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the different subjective domain satisfactions. A distinction is made between long-term and short-term effects. The individual domain satisfactions depend on objectively measurable variables, such as income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set

An Unusual Case of Human Rabies Thought to be of Chiropteran Origin

On 21 February 1970 a White male patient died in the H. F. Verwoerd Hospital, Pretoria after a 5-day illness diagnosed clinically as rabies. The source of exposure to the disease was reported to be a bat bite sustained approximately 5 weeks earlier. Fluorescent antibody (FA) tests using standard conjugate on the deceased's brain were negative but Negri bodies were found histologically in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum. A strain of rabies virus not demonstrable with standard FA conjugate was isolated from brain tissue. Specific FA conjugate prepared from this virus revealed the presence of typical rabies fluorescent inclusions in the brain of the deceased