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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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Oaxaca-Blinder Meets Kitagawa: What Is the Link?
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Sierminska, Eva - 2023
Recently, papers have started combining the naming of two popular decomposition methods: the Oaxaca-Blinder method and the Kitagawa method, a popular method in demographics and sociology. Although the two approaches have the same objective in terms of decomposing outcome differences in some...
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Writing Matters
Feld, Jan; Lines, Corinna; Ross, Libby - 2023
economics. Each economist judged five papers in their original version and five different papers that had been language edited …
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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
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529124
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Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare interpretation has been criticized for a long time on the...
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2004
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262084
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The neuroeconomics of mind reading and empathy
Singer, Tania; Fehr, Ernst - 2005
and empathizing and discuss some implications for economics. …
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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following … the subsequent job placement institution? The population under study consists of labor economics PhD graduates who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269172
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Trends in economic research: an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …
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A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
Frijters, Paul; Clark, Andrew E.; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...
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