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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697413

Growth, income distribution, and well-being : comparisons across space and time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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(Re-)distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performance across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409838

Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the Easterlin paradox

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008

The "Easterlin paradoxʺ suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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Subjective well-being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: April 16, 2013

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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Economic challenges in the Anthropocene

Musu, Ignazio - 2013

The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...

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How large are global energy subsidies?

Coady, David P.; Parry, Ian W. H.; Sears, Louis; Shang, … - 2016

This paper estimates fossil fuel subsidies and the economic and environmental benefits from reforming them, focusing mostly on a broad notion of subsidies arising when consumer prices are below supply costs plus environmental costs and general consumption taxes. Subsidies are $4.9 trillion...

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Airline fuel usage and carbon emissions : determining factors

Brueckner, Jan K.; Abreu, Chrystyane - 2016

Using annual data on individual US airlines over the 1995-2015 period, this paper presents regression results relating an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its...

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Energy markets and global economic conditions

Baumeister, Christiane; Korobilis, Dimitris; Lee, Thomas - 2020

usefulness for forecasting real oil prices and global petroleum consumption. We find that world industrial production is one of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213172

Lifestyle taxes in the presence of profit shifting

Levaggi, Rosella; Marchiori, Carmen; Panteghini, Paolo - 2020

lifestyle taxes may exist. In general, the First Best sin tax cannot be levied if Governments are also interested in corporate … harder to impose significant lifestyle taxes. We also provide some insights about the effects that the international effort … to fight profit shifting may have on lifestyle taxes. …

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