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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - CESifo - 2010

It is argued that the concept of well –being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2010

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010

social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - CESifo - 2010

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends...

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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze …

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The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...

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Nineteenth Century Biological Conditions on the High Central Plains

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2012

Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska’s output market and...

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to … including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the …

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Trust, Racial Fragmentation and Income Inequality: New Evidence from the U.S.

Tesei, Andrea - CESifo - 2014

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...

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African-American and White Inequality in the American South: Evidence from the 19th Century Missouri State Prison

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2007

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in the literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One...

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