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Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially … success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining …
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The Welfare Effects of Time Reallocation: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Fleche, Sarah; Ricardo, Pagan - 2021
on welfare, namely the wellbeing costs associated with DST exceed its benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657901
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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
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Immigrant Narratives
Gehring, Kai; Adema, Joop; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022
Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants' role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470285
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Immigrant Narratives
Gehring, Kai; Harm Adema, Joop Age; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022
Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants’ role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243093
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Living standards in black and white: evidence from the heights of Ohio prison inmates, 1829 - 1913
Carson, Scott Alan; Maloney, Thomas N. - 2006
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...
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Health, wealth and inequality: a contribution to the debate about the relationship between inequality and health
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
We consider a differential game of a conflict between two factions who both have a desire to exact revenge. We show that, in contrast to conventional wisdom, the desire for revenge need not lead to escalation of conflicts. Surprisingly, in the open-loop equilibrium, the weaker faction exerts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271949
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well-being … more rapid growth in life satisfaction. These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274814
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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries: A preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011
-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being … in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276728
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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261234