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countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …
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declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth in the Hispanic population is linked to faster growth in income per …
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The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …
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contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information …We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …
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countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …
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smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 … that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … family structure with income pooling is less the norm, there are fewer opportunities for paid employment, and aggregate …
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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
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for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …
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inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …
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pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on …This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …
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