inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional … foods of their origin states. First, I focus on the preferences themselves and document that migrants bring their origin …

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting poor countries between …

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …