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The economics of art museums
Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000852362
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Tax Policy Toward Art Museums
Fullerton, Don - 1990
Although art museums do not pay any substantial taxes, they are greatly affected by various U.S. tax rules. The … individual receives a deduction for donations of art to museums, the estate gets a deduction for bequests, and the corporation … gets a deduction for charitable gifts. Art museums also are not taxed on investment income or on some "related" business …
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Donor Governance and Financial Management in Prominent U.S. Art Museums
Yermack, David - 2015
limit the discretion of managers. In a study of U.S. art museums, I find that this practice has grown significantly in …, museums shift their cost structures away from administration and toward program services, and they exhibit very high savings ….S. art museums may represent a reaction by contributors to the industry's high rates of financial distress, weak boards of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457601
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Utility and Happiness
Kimball, Miles S.; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Psychologists have developed effective survey methods of measuring how happy people feel at a given time. The relationship between how happy a person feels and utility is an unresolved question. Existing work in Economics either ignores happiness data or assumes that felt happiness is more or...
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From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn about welfare or preferences when choice data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372484
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
threshold. Notably, retirement manifests significant gender heterogeneity in its influence on life satisfaction, leading to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421205
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Do People Report Happiness Accurately?
Andreoni, James; Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Jia, Tingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a novel validation method: subjects report how happy they would feel (or did feel) after some specified event, as well as how they would respond (or would have responded) to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512062
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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity : Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations
Dominitz, Jeff - 1996
We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near-term futures. This paper uses SEE data on over two thousand labor force participants interviewed in 1994 and 1995 to describe how Americans in the labor force perceive the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473152
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Entrepreneurship, Happiness and Supernormal Returns : Evidence from Britain and the US
Blanchflower, David - 1992
utility as proxied by overall satisfaction data …
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