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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464427
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671343
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Compiling a harmonized database from Germany's 1978 to 2003 sample surveys of income and expenditure
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Werdt, Clive - 2010
We outline a procedure for combining six cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, and discuss potential pitfalls of such a venture. Particularly, we investigate the consequences of a major break in the survey design for inter-temporal comparisons of expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952561
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How do households allocate their assets? : stylized facts from the eurosystem household finance and consumption survey
Arrondel, Luc; Bartiloro, Laura; Fessler, Primin; … - 2014
inequality. We tentatively link differences in asset holding patterns across countries to differences in institutions, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384151
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A one-off wealth levy? : assessing the pros, the cons and the importance of credibility
Kempkes, Gerhard; Stähler, Nikolai - 2014
From an economic perspective, imposing a credible one-off net wealth levy in crisis times as a tool to ward off a national emergency appears to be advantageous as, in an ideal world, this would not distort market players’ allocation decisions. However, in practice, charging such a levy may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433439
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Who shows solidarity with the irresponsible?
Bolle, Friedel; Costard, Jano - 2013
In the Solidarity game lucky winners of a lottery can transfer part of their income to unlucky losers. Will losers get smaller transfers if they can be assumed to be responsible for their zero income because they have chosen riskier lotteries? Or will risk-lovers and riskaverters favor those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782666
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Poverty traps in Markov models of theevolution of wealth
Blume, Lawrence E.; Durlauf, Steven N.; Lukina, Aleksandra - 2020
Poverty trap models are dynamical systems with more than one attractor. Similar dynamical systems arise in optimal growth and macroeconomic models. These systems are often studied empirically by ad hoc methods relying on intuition from deterministic systems, such as looking for multiple peaks in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179189
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Keeping Up with the Jansens : Causal Peer Effects on Household Spending, Beliefs and Happiness
Rooij, Maarten van; Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-post employment outcomes. Finally, believing that one earns more than peers causally leads to large positive effects on happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486199
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"Better the devil you know": are stated preferences over health and happiness determined by how healthy and happy people are?
Adler, Matthew D.; Dolan, Paul; Henwood, Amanda; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655858
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The effect of the Brexit referendum result on subjective well-being
Kavetsos, Georgios; Kawachi, Ichirō; Kyriopoulos, Ilias; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947702