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Subjective Welfare, Isolation and Relative Consumption

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The recent literature has shown that subjective welfare depends on relative income. Attempts to test this relationship in poor countries have yielded conflicting results, suggesting that the relationship is not universal or only applies above a certain income level. We revisit the issue using...

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Isolation and Subjective Welfare

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using detailed geographical and household survey data from Nepal, this article investigates the relationship between isolation and subjective welfare. This is achieved by examining how distance to markets and proximity to large urban centers affect responses to questions about income and...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...

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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours 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...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score … and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita …

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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …

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Unhappiness and job finding

Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …

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Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behaviour and Success

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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