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Work values in Western and Eastern Europe
Torgler, Benno - 2011
The paper reports on work values in Europe. At the country level we find that job satisfaction is related to lower working hours, higher well-being, and a higher GDP per capita. Moving to the micro level, we turn our attention from job satisfaction to analyse empirically work centrality and work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419750
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Willingness to pay to reduce mortality risks : evidence from a three-country contingent valuation study
Alberini, Anna; Hunt, Alistair; Markandya, Anil - 2004
Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of the lives saved by environmental policies are those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606716
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Robustness of VSL values from contingent valuation surveys
Alberini, Anna - 2004
This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606927
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Early-life correlates of later-life well-being : evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697117
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Early maternal employment and non-cognitive outcomes in early childhood and adolescence : evidence from British birth cohort data
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Clark, Andrew E. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671554
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Going solo: how starting solo self-employment affects incomes and well-being
Cribb, Jonathan; Xu, Xiaowei - 2020
Using a large-scale panel data set, we trace the evolution of incomes and well-being around the entry into 'solo self-employment' - that is, running a business without employees. We find that solo self-employment is used to self-insure against employment shocks: employment rates fall and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253292
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Childlessness, childfreeness and compensation
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244528
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The more the merrier? : adjusting fertility to weather shocks
Bertelli, Olivia - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671557
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Mothers at peace : international peacebuilding and post-conflict fertility
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227822
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I'm not fat, just too short for my weight : family child care and obesity in Germany
Mahler, Philippe - 2007
Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother’s labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children’s later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892445