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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/ak4r54626380774p/">Journal of Economic Inequality</A>. …
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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
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Intra-household Work Time Synchronization: Togetherness or Material Benefits?
Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriëtte Maassen van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing...
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Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...
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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in The Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collectivehousehold model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goodsare assumed to be public....
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark , Blanchflower and others with the older incomeevaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in theseventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and … on the most important criticisms of GDP as an indicator of social welfare and economic progress. It further examines the …
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Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil
Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
public safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern …
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