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This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction....
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sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age …
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teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but …
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negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference … age groups, and most surprisingly, even own income becomes insignificant for those over 45, while education has …
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two applicants differ with respect to characteristics such as gender, age, education, experience, ethnicity, religious …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital …
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take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …
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-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the … maintaining a work force with diversity in age. Overall, the implication is that it is beneficial to define additional short …
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For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new … empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individual level by analyzing data on … between age, wage and productivity. In particular I address the potential wage-productivity gap that might occur at higher …
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