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Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2016
age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479398
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Genetic Fortune: Winning or Losing Education, Income, and Health
Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A.P.; Karlsson Linnér, … - 2020
We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes … in a sample of ~35,000 biological siblings. We find that genetic fortune for higher income causes greater socio … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427153
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2011
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280689
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286974