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Does Lone Motherhood Decrease Women’s Subjective Well-Being? Evidence from Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Matysiak, Anna; Mynarska, Monika - Instytut Statystyki i Demografii, Szkoła Główna … - 2012

children may influence mothers’ subjective well-being. In a second step, we analyze panel survey data to quantify this … influence. Our results leave no doubt that, while raising a child outside of marriage poses many challenges, parenthood has some … positive influence on a lone mother’s life. Our qualitative evidence shows that children are a central point in an unmarried …

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Family formation and subjective well-being.A literature overview.

Baranowska, Anna - Instytut Statystyki i Demografii, Szkoła Główna … - 2010

family formation and subjective well-being. It identifies the issues which could be investigated in more detail, possibly …

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - CESifo - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - CESifo - 2008

We reassess the “scarring” hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person’s current life satisfaction even after the person hasbecome reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015

We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....

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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy

Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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Social Preferences and Portfolio Choice

Riedl, Arno; Smeets, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We empirically investigate the effect of social preferences on portfolio choice. We use administrative investor data and link them to behavior in a controlled experiment and to survey responses. We show that social preferences rather than (biased) risk-return expectations are predictive for...

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Does parenthood increase happiness? Evidence for Poland.

Baranowska, Anna; Matysiak, Anna - Instytut Statystyki i Demografii, Szkoła Główna … - 2011

In the recent decade demographers turned their attention to investigating the effects of children on self … to become parents in terms of their subjective wellbeing, given the costs of having children. This paper follows this … experienced a rapid decline in fertility despite particularly strong attachment of young Poles to family values. To this end, we …

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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land Conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - CESifo - 2014

based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …

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