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Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2006

This paper proposes a new way to think about happiness. It distinguishes between stocks and flows. Central to the analysis is a concept we call ‘hedonic capital’. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life-shocks are smoothed by the drawing down of hedonic...

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Online fundraising - the perfect ask?

Payne, Abigail; Scharf, Kimberley; Smith, Sarah - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014

causes. In recent years, individual charity fundraising through these platforms has become a mass activity. Using JustGiving …, the UK’s biggest charity fundraising platform, 21 million people have raised £1.5 billion for over 13,000 charities and … present insights on individual fundraising from micro-econometric analysis of JustGiving data. The analysis exploits a number …

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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley; Smith, Sarah - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014

Using a newly collected dataset on inquisitorial activity for seven regions, fourteen provinces and 947 municipalities, I analyze the long-term economic consequences of the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834). I show that inquisitorial activity is negatively associated to regional and provincial...

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