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

Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004

Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...

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Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

Tella, Rafael Di; MacCulloch, Robert - EconWPA - 2005

The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. One possible answer is that human development...

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High status for all? Cheating the zero-sum mechanism of happiness.

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2005

We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in group hierarchy which determines mating chances, number of offspring and food share; this dependence explains the correlation between relative income and subjective well-being...

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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 …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial … of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …

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An Economic Approach to Adultery Law

Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 2000

A long-term relationship such as marriage will not operate efficiently without sanctions for misconduct, of which …

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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and Parental Investment in Children

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …

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Elusive effects of unemployment on happiness

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the connection between unemployment and subjective well-being in Finland by using cross-sections for the years 1990, 1996 and 2000 from World Values Surveys. An unprecedented increase in the national unemployment rate (from 3 to 17 per cent) did not produce a drop in the mean...

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Negative Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa

Aguero, Jorge - EconWPA - 2005

This paper proposes a new test to distinguish between the two leading theories of discrimination: preference versus information. Discrimination based on preferences occurs when people behave as if they refuse to change their stereotypes about the capabilities of discriminated individuals. Those...

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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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