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study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …
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risk aversion, political preferences, life and job satisfaction. …
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satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …
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Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …
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In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …
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Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …
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We use perturbation methods to derive a rule for the optimal risk-adjusted social cost of carbon (SCC) that … different aversions to risk and intertemporal fluctuations, convex damages, uncertainties in economic growth, atmospheric carbon …-run climate feedbacks. Our non-certainty-equivalent rule for the SCC incorporates precaution, risk insurance, and climate …
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Courts typically base compensation for loss of income in personal injury cases on either mean or median work income. Yet, quantatively, mean and median incomes are typically very different. For example, in the US median income is 65 percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to...
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-form expressions of welfare loss from shocks and epistemological uncertainty identify the interaction of (intertemporal) risk attitude …
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