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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Educational Inequality*

Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...

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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

Tella, Rafael Di - 2008

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 2003

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender and various determinants. It is a preliminary version of a forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 (UNESCO and Urban Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five...

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Price Discrimination, Copyright Law, and Technological Innovation : Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs

Mortimer, Julie Holland - 2005

This paper examines the welfare effects of intellectual property protection, accounting for firms' optimal responses to legal environments and technological innovation. I examine firms' use of indirect price discrimination in response to U.S. copyright law, which effectively prevents direct...

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A Distant Mirror of Debt, Default, and Relief

Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2014

We take a first pass at quantifying the magnitudes of debt relief achieved through default and restructuring in two distinct samples: 1979-2010, focusing on credit events in emerging markets, and 1920-1939, documenting the official debt hangover in advanced economies that was created by World...

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Two Tales of Adjustment : East Asian Lessons for European Growth

Chari, Anusha - 2014

stimulus to austerity in Europe was quite abrupt. The difference in fiscal stance helps explain the difference in the post …

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Can Severe Fiscal Contractions be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries

Giavazzi, Francesco - 1990

According to conventional wisdom, a fiscal consolidation is likely to contract real aggregate demand. It has often been argued, however, that this conclusion is misleading as it neglects the role of expectations of future policy: if the fiscal consolidation is read by the private sector as a...

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