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The Academic Review Process: How Can We Make it More Efficient?

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

Recently many editors try to reduce the turnaround times of academic journals. Shorter turnaround times, however, will induce many additional submissions of low-quality papers, increasing significantly the workload of editors and referees, and the number of rejections prior to publication. I...

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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the UK over the period 1991-2001. Using “residual” self-rated health to provide instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing...

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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The level of satisfaction with life: evidence gathered among women from Greater Montevideo

Rossi, Maximo; Bucheli, Marisa - EconWPA - 2004

This work constitutes a first exploration on the information about people<92>s satisfaction levels in Uruguay. In particular, it intends to analyse the relationship between the level of satisfaction with life and other variables in a sample of women from 25 to 54 years old in Greater Montevideo....</92>

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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the “objective good”

Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of well-being, which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actually desired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expert judgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on...

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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'

Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005

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Elusive effects of unemployment on happiness

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

personally reduces life satisfaction, but does not have a significant effect on happiness in ordered logit estimation. However …, generalized ordered logit estimation reveals that being unemployed has a negative effect on happiness at lower happiness scores …, but no significant effect at high happiness levels. …

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Happiness in Eastern Europe

Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase … happiness in Eastern Europe. In addition, rural dwellers and church goers experience greater life- satisfaction. Aggregate … unemployment can explain more of the cross- country variation in happiness than income per capita. …

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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004

society. It is also found that relative income is more important to happiness at higher levels of absolute income. Potential …

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Satisfaction and Learning: an experimental game to measure happiness

Novarese, Marco; Rizzello, Salvatore - EconWPA - 2003

- the participants' level of satisfaction was measured. As in the analysis of individual happiness, satisfaction is here …

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