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prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …
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. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union … literature on immigrant family formation is diverse but perhaps the key findings highlighted in this chapter are that outcomes …, and the timing of union formation. The last section of the chapter reviews, among other things, a set of mechanisms that …
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freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to … human well-being and the phenomenon of adaptation. Many challenges, of course, remain. First, we are only at the beginning … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …
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Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity or a good produces for them now and in the future and they can maximize their utility. This...
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adaptation. …
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This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...
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Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This … on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …
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This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of child or spouse and being a victim of crime. The key advantage of our data is that we are able to...
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reference to measure the degree of adaptation to widowhood. In the second step, the life satisfaction trajectories of both …
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overall job satisfaction at the year unionization occurs. Nonetheless, adaptation to unionism is complete within the first few …
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