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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised

This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...

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Pension systems, ageing and the stability and growth pact

Beetsma, Roel (contributor); Oksanen, Heikki (contributor) - 2007

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Collective labor supply of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2009

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....

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Immigration, fertility, and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in … ; redistribution ; ethnic diversity ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …

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Strategic housing policy, migration and sorting around population thresholds

De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2015

exogenously imposed population thresholds leading to an increased number and/or remuneration of local office-holders. Using data … population growth through policy measures aimed at stimulating net in-migration when approaching important population thresholds … election cycle to maximize population growth just before the 'deadline' to surpass a population threshold - act as a key …

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Modeling uncertainty in climate change : a multi-model comparison

Gillingham, Kenneth; Nordhaus, William D.; Anthoff, David; … - 2015

using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total …

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The lifecycle of the 47%

Fullerton, Don; Rao, Nirupama - 2016

We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...

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Immigrant entrepreneurship

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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Social preferences in the lab : a comparison of students and a representative population

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Nygaard, Knut; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2011

representative population into the lab, and we compare their behavior to the behavior of different student populations. Our study … shows that students may not be informative of the role of social preferences in the broader population. We find that the …. -- social preferences ; representative population ; dictator game ; trust game …

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