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Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - 2009

This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...

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Education, social mobility and religious movements : a theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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Young adults living with their parents and the influence of peers

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Kaya, Ezgi - 2016

This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...

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Relative income and life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants : the impact of a collectivistic culture

Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2015

This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...

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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

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Is Posner right? : an empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2009

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data...

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Children, spousal love, and happiness : an economic analysis

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2012

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …

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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2013

In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the … sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age-happiness …

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Age, life-satisfaction, and relative income : insights from the UK and Germany

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2011

We first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive...

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