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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010
In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...
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National and international income dispersion and aggregate expenditures
Fillat Castejón, Carmen; Francois, Joseph F. - 2004
We examine linkages between aggregate household income, distribution of that income, and aggregate cross-country expenditure patterns. We are able to decompose income effects into international income dispersion effects (from variations in average income) and national income dispersion (income...
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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999
A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...
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A new inequality measure that is sensitive to extreme values and asymmetries
McAleer, Michael; Ryu, Hang-keun; Slottje, Daniel Jonathan - 2017
properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …
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Combining panel data sets with attrition and refreshment samples
Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido; Ridder, Geert; Rubin, … - 1998
With panel data important issues can be resolved that can not beaddressed with cross--sectional data. A major drawback is that paneldata suffer from more severe missing data problems. Adding a sampleconsisting of new units randomly drawn from the original populationas replacements for units who...
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The information content of a stated choice experiment
Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Adriana Tanneke de; Rietveld, Piet - 2008 - This version: May 16, 2008
This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...
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The values of natural and constructed wetlands : a meta-analysis
Ghermandi, Andrea; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; … - 2009
The values of goods and services provided by natural and constructed wetlands are examined through a meta-analysis of 418 observations of the economic value of 186 wetlands. Water quality improvement, non-consumptive recreation, and provision of natural habitat and biodiversity turn out to be...
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On a simple survey measure of individual risk aversion
Hartog, Joop; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Jonker, Nicole - 2000
We ask individuals for their reservation price of a specified lotteryand deduce their Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion.This allows direct testing of common hypotheses on risk attitudes inthree datasets. We find that risk aversion indeed fallswith income and wealth. Entrepreneurs are less...
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Empirical relevance of the Hillman condition and comparative advantage
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2004
We analyze the empirical violation of the Hillman condition, a necessary and sufficient condition for the correspondence between comparative advantage and pre-trade relative prices. Our comprehensive data set allows us to investigate the Hillman condition for virtually all countries of the...
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