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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian - 2010
We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert's provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert's...
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Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011
This paper argues, in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental...
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The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
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Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo - 2017
We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment, behavioral preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that...
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A Field Study of Donor Behaviour in the Iranian Kidney Market
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240358
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Feeling Good or Feeling Better?
Prati, Alberto - 2020
population, where more than 50,000 European citizens were asked questions about their current and past life satisfaction. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835880
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Subjective Well‐Being and Income : Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey - 2013
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
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Influence of Freedom of Choice on Happiness
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, Christopher; … - 2022
our model. We restrict our empirical studies to four East Asian countries, which are South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030761
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The Happy Cultural Omnivore? Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Consumption Patterns and Subjective Well-Being
Bertacchini, Enrico; Bolognesi, Valentina; Venturini, … - 2021
investigate how heterogeneity in cultural profiles is associated with overall life satisfaction and relevant domains (health … relationship between cultural participation and overall life satisfaction. Still, a more complex picture arises when considering … all the statistically significant differences in life and domain satisfaction across cultural consumption patterns. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324554
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
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