Many observers believe that times are growing harder for young people in Western society. This paper looks at the evidence and finds that conventional wisdom appears to be wrong. Using the U.S. General Social Surveys and the Eurobarometer Surveys, the paper studies the reports happiness and...

In this paper we explore the demand for consumer technologies that involve joint inputs in the generation of the service flow. An intertemporal model is used in the analysis. The impact of hardware and software prices on hardware and software demand as well as the impact of changes in the size...