China’s reform worked and produced some of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China’s reform is a serial … in the world in the past twenty-two years. That China has managed to grow so rapidly despite the absence of many …

abnormally low levels of life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey and other sources, we study various … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non … the aged population explain a great deal of the difference in life satisfaction between transition countries and other …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …

We investigate how individual well-being is affected by unemployment. Analysing panel data on life satisfaction, we …

on resource abundance equals 10.9 percentage points more reform, a large effect given that the mean probability of reform …

What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation …? We address these questions using an episode of a drastic reform in Russia between 2001 and 2004 which liberalized … average, the reform reduced the administrative costs of firms; but, the progress of reform had a substantial geographical …

reform, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other hand …