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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
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
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Do WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?
Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper uses 67 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in the World Trade …
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Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level cross-sectional data. This paper attempts to provide some evidence on whether this correlation reflects causality running from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials...
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Competition and Well-Being
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper experimentally studies the effects of competition in an environment where people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any gains in earnings for the...
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Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household welfare. In the northern city of Tangiers, among homeowners without a private connection to the city’s water grid, a random subset was offered a simplified procedure to...
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Decentralization, Happiness, and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses microdata from the four available waves of the...
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Trust, Growth and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various … economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of interactions between trust and economic development in the … research on the impact of trust on human development and well-being. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how …
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
- sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout …
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Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940
Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
textiles and consumption of textiles, and (c) consumption of clothing in India in relation to the rest of the world. …
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … regions in the world. We then use the model to study the effect of a spatial shock. We focus on the example of a rise in the … of the world economy. …
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