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Animal Welfare and Human Ethics: A Personality Study
Albrecht, Konstanze; Krämer, Florentin; Szech, Nora - 2017
We revisit the long-standing question whether there is a relation between animal welfare and human ethics. Therefore, we elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct, and real setup: Subjects choose between intensive farming versus organic living conditions for a hen....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744915
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The connexion between old and new approaches to financial satisfaction
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Do choices affect preferences? Some doubts and new evidence
Holden, Steinar - 2009
Recent research is exploring the case for choice-induced changes in preferences using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm … (1956). Participants are faced with a choice between items that they have given the same rating of liking, two items at a … time, and it is found that an item not chosen in one choice has a lower tendency of being chosen in a subsequent choice …
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Price Effects on Compound Commodities
Minagawa, Junichi; Upmann, Thorsten - 2016
We explore effects of simultaneous price changes for the demand of a group of goods, which we refer to as a compound commodity. Specifically, we consider unit and proportional cost components (e. g., taxes, transportation costs, etc.) imposed on the compound commodity. We find that there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555502
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Smoking and social interaction
Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264099
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Income or Leisure? On the Hidden Benefits of (Un-)Employment
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017
We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
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Happiness and Religion
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2015
We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as … abiding by restrictions on consumption and behavior) decrease happiness while the spiritual aspects increase it. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307097
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Time use, unemployment, and well-being: an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person’s employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018272
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Income and happiness across Europe: do reference values matter?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2007
that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264249
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Scarring or scaring?: the psychological impact of past unemployment and future unemployment risk
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
We reassess the scarring" hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...
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