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Illness and Health Satisfaction: The Role of Relative Comparisons

Thiel, Lars - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status e ects, social health norms, and...

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Why Do German Men Marry Women from Less Developed Countries?: An Analysis of Transnational Partner Search Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel

Glowsky, David - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses deduced from exchange theory and the economic theory of the family are tested: 1. Low physical and social attractiveness as well as reduced opportunities to meet German partners...

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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy

Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...

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The Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation

Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000

This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …

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