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Creativity, Education or What? On the Measurement of Regional Human Capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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The Italian wage curve reloaded: Does occupation matter?

Gucciardi, Gianluca - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

draws data from 1977 to 2008. An occupation-level wage curve exists for all the employees, while it holds only for a sub …

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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness

Opfinger, Matthias; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …

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Prenatal Testosterone Exposure Predicts Mindfulness – Does This Mediate Its Effect on Happiness?

Neyse, Levent; Ring, Patrick; Bosworth, Steven - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

happiness levels as well as their estimates about others’ general life satisfaction. We find that MAAS strongly predicts … absolute and relative life satisfaction and also current happiness levels, but digit ratios do not mediate the relationship …

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The Impact of Climate on Life Satisfaction

Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values Survey. Climate is described in terms of ‘degree-months’ calculated using an optimally-selected base temperature of 65°F (18.3°C). Our results suggest that countries with...

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Religiosity and Personal Well-Being: People Can Be Happy With or Without Religion

Opfinger, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

use information from the World Values Survey about subjective happiness and life satisfaction. We relate this information … between personal well-being and religiosity, especially so for happiness. This result is consistent throughout all our …

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Tougher educational exam leading to worse selection

de Carvalho Andrade, Eduardo; Castro, Luciano I. de - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

A parallel of education with transformative processes in standard markets suggest that a more severe control of the quality of the output will improve the overall quality of the education. This paper shows a somehow counterintuitive result: an increase in the exam difficulty may reduce the...

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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the reference period of income

Schröder, Carsten - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

When individual or household incomes are collected for administrative or scientific surveys, the reference period of income is sometimes a month, sometimes a quarter, and sometimes a year. This reference period of income likely affects the shape of the distribution and derived measures of...

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