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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties

Ridderinkhof, Richard; Stallen, Mirre; Winden, Frans … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties and discusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affective weight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual (‘utility interdependence’)....

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Extending Choice In English Health Care: The implications of the economic evidence

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Wilson, Deborah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … subjects this assumption to the scrutiny provided by a review of the theoretical and empirical economic evidence on choice in …

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Does quality affect patients’ choice of doctor? Evidence from the UK

Gravelle, Hugh S; Propper, Carol; Santos, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an important part of the health care market using data...

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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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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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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto F; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … European happiness because of their lower social mobility (since no preference for equality exists amongst the rich or the …

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972 …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s …. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: Two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been …

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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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Are the Welfare State and Distribution Really that Bad for the Economy? Effects of Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...

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