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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2007
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...
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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024
We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581233
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Welfare Measurement and Poverty Targeting Based on Participatory Wealth Rankings
Wiegand, Martin - 2020
Participatory wealth rankings (PWRs) present an inclusive and inexpensive targeting method to identify poor households. They tend to be well received by participants but point to a systematically different understanding of welfare than implied by consumption-based rankings. This suggests that...
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The Welfare Effects of Discrimination in Insurance
van der Noll, Rob - 2006
side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … find that aggregate surplus decreases when risk aversion is high. When risk aversion is low however, discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325544
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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments
van Ewijk, Reyn - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...
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Don't demotivate, discriminate
Kamphorst, Jurjen J. A.; Swank, Otto H. - 2014
This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to … employees expect to be favored. The manager, who has no taste for discrimination, discriminates in order to avoid demotivating …
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International Trade and Labor Market Discrimination
Chisik, Richard; Namini, Julian Emami - 2016
We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two …-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade … trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism, reduces the matching probability and output in the skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526135
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The Impact of Labour Market Deregulation: Lessons from the
Gorter, Cees; Poot, Jacques - 1999
Unemployment remains a major economic and social problem in many developedeconomies. Thispaper provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the impact of labourmarket deregulation as a means of combatting unemployment and of enhancing competitivewage determination. The paper focusses...
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Measuring and Explaining the Limited Take-up of the Housing Benefit in the Netherlands
Rouwendal, Jan - 2002
It is well known that the take-up rate of the Dutch housing benefit and othermeans tested benefits is substantially below 100%. In order to measure non-take up oneusually has to simulate entitlement to the benefits. In this paper we take a closer look atthe quality of the simulation. We find...
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Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates
Sridharan, Sanjeev; Vujic, Suncica; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2003
The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony of-fenders committed on or after January 1, 1995. We examine the impact of this legislationon reported crime rates using different time series approaches. In particular, structuraltime series models are...
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