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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014

The causes of people’s political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...

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A Reassessment of the Relationship Between GDP and Life Satisfaction

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2012

Determining the relation between life satisfaction and aggregate income at country level has been problematic, because … individual life satisfaction and GDP. An almost identical result is found when the relationship between aggregate income of … discuss possible explanations of the hump shaped pattern linked to external effects of the aggregate income on life …

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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

Neve, Jan Emmanueal De; Oswald, Andrew - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2012

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person’s well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014

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INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC INCOME TAXES.

MYLES, G.D. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1989

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Poverty: a wasted decade.

Pyatt, G. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1990

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Are People Willing to Pay to Reduce Others' Incomes?.

Zizzo, D.J.; Oswald, A. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2000

This paper studies utility interdependence in the laboratory. We design an experiment where subjects can reduce ("burn") other subjects' money. Those who burn the money of others have to give up some of their own cash. Despite this cost, and contrary to the assumptions of economics textbooks,...

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Econometric Evidence on LDC Exports: A Contribution to the Hong Kong Debate.

Leech, D.; Halstead, G. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1996

values of the estimated price and income elasticities, has failed to provide a full account. It is necessarily also to look …

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Renegotiation of Social Contracts by Majority Rule.

Anderberg, D.; Perroni, C. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2000

We consider renegotiation of social earnings insurance arrangements by majority voting in an economy where ex-ante identical individuals make unobservable private investments in education. We show that voting-based renegotiation can result in a higher expected level of investment in comparison...

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A NORMATIVE ANALYSIS OF CAPITAL INCOME TAXES IN THE PRESENCE OF AGGREGATE RISK.

CHRISTIANSEN, V. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1990

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