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The gasoline price and the commuting behavior: Towards sustainable modes of transport
Belloc, Ignacio; Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022
This paper analyzes how gasoline price is related to the time workers in the US spend commuting by private vehicle … data on gasoline price by state and year, we find that higher gasoline prices are related to less commuting by private car …, and more commuting by public transport, walking, and cycling, the latter being transportation alternatives that are more …
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Challenged by Migration: Europe’s Options
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...
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Americans’ Responses to Terrorism and Mass-Shooting: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Module
Clark, Andrew; Stancanelli, Elena - 2017
A small but significant literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, although the impact of mass-shooting has not yet been addressed by economists. We compare the economic effects of two tragedies: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Shooting. Fatal...
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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. In- terpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630720
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Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being?
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2017
Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health...
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents: Evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union
O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its multiple impacts. The analysis suggests natives need not worry. Increasing immigrant population shares have no statistically significant effects on natives’ well-being in 28...
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‘More Children, More Happiness?’: New Evidence from Elderly Parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019
In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of ‘more children, more happiness’ by exploiting the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and...
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Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession
Morgan, Robson; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
Average subjective well-being decreased in Europe during the Great Recession, primarily among people with less than a college education and people younger than retirement age. However, some countries fared better than others depending on their labor market policies. More generous unemployment...
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Can Women’s Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzalez, Rolando; Dang, … - 2019
This paper investigates a women’s self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...
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