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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269838
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A nonparametric analysis of black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 335-379
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412963
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A nonparametric analysis of black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 335-379
Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic … status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility … traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756354
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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529124