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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions
Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Motorized individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957588
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Knowing what not to do: Financial literacy and consumer credit choices
Dick, Christian D.; Jaroszek, Lena M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
financial literacy but is unrelated to household income. This result is robust to household structure, age, formal education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957617
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Factors influencing German house owners' preferences on energy retrofits
Achtnicht, Martin; Madlener, Reinhard - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
In this paper, we identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of building energy retrofits in Germany, which is promoted by public policy as an important measure to address the future challenges of climate change and energy security. We analyze data from a 2009 survey of more than 400...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957637
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Forecasting adoption of ultra-low-emission vehicles using the GHK simulator and Bayes estimates of a multinomial probit model
Daziano, Ricardo A.; Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
In this paper we use Bayes estimates of a multinomial probit model with fully flexible substitution patterns to forecast consumer response to ultra-low-emission vehicles. In this empirical application of the probit Gibbs sampler, we use stated-preference data on vehicle choice from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957664
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Accounting for uncertainty in willingness to pay for environmental benefits
Daziano, Ricardo A.; Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Previous literature on the distribution of willingness to pay has focused on its heterogeneity distribution without addressing exact interval estimation. In this paper we derive and analyze Bayesian confidence sets for quantifying uncertainty in the determination of willingness to pay for carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957726
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Demand Systems with Unit Values: A Comparsion of Two Specifications
Lahatte, Agénor; Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
The availability of quantity information along with expenditure information in some household surveys allows the estimation of price reactions on the basis of unit values. We compare two specifications that have been proposed in this context by Deaton (1990) and Crawford et al. (1997) in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642601
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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions
Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Motorised individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469768
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Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992
Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
characteristics such as the woman?s level of education, or household income, have at most a marginal impact on these profiles. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097563