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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2009
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline-level reduces …
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155599
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups : An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148080
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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries
Halla, Martin - 2013
We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e. the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086216
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136035
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137249
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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118277
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Fighting Poverty : Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec
Clavet, Nicholas-James - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084664
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Accounting for Family Background When Designing Optimal Income Taxes : A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Aaberge, Rolf - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153308
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A Theory of Child Targeting
Bargain, Olivier - 2007
There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, we examine the merit of targeting children through two general policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777267