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Is Posner right? : an empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2010

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...

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The selection of pay referents : potential patterns and impacts on life satisfaction

Schneider, Simone - 2010

Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...

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Subjective well-being and relative deprivation : an empirical link

D'Ambrosio, Conchita (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …

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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : Evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction ; a revised version

Schwarze, Johannes (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Why are middle-aged people so depressed? : evidence from West Germany

Brockmann, Hilke (contributor) - 2009

Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et … Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest happiness levels occurring during middle age (Easterlin, 2006 … and cohorteffects. Secondly, all empirical research lacks a theoretical explanation as to why age affects happiness. The …

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