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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

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A decade of editing the European economic review

Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - 2011

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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How economics helped shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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Egalitarian religion and economics

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

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Integrating personality psychology into economics

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists …

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...

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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis

Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006

Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...

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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada

Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010

This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States

Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...

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