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these two sets of results. This kind of validation of experienced utility via direct comparison with decision utility … regarding happiness analysis, and in particular with respect to the measurement of reference-group income. We here use data from …
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measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …
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with high cognitive skills make decisions akin to the expected utility model.As predicted by our model, in our empirical … to a better understanding of the role of cognitive skills in decision making under uncertainty …
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productivity and players utility in equilibrium …
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. Separability conditions facilitate identification of consumer marginal utility and firm marginal product functions. We also …
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We embed the problem of public school choice design in a model of local provision of education. We define cardinal (student) segregation as that emerging when families with identical ordinal preferences submit different rankings of schools in a centralised school choice procedure. With the...
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Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, preference heterogeneity can be inferred from the observation of individual choices (revealed...
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This paper examines the effects of alternative assumptions regarding the curvature of utility upon estimated discount … the Holt and Laury method for risk. The results demonstrate that utility elicited directly from choice over time is … significantly concave, but far closer to linear than utility elicited under risk. As a result, the effect of adjusting discount …
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ignoring the household as unit of decision-making has relevant empirical consequences. In estimation, the individual search … individual search specification implies gender differentials in lifetime utility inequality 74% larger. The results of our policy … experiments emphasize the importance of looking at lifetime utility inequality measures as opposed to simply cross-sectional wage …
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As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...
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