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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. October 2011. Major:Psychology. Advisor: Dr. Jo-Ida Hansen. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 127 pages, appendix A.
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This paper explores the potential of using subjective well-being (SWB) data to valueenvironmental attributes. A theoretical framework compares this method, also known as the lifesatisfaction approach, with the standard hedonic pricing approach, identifying their similarities and differences. As...
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by marital status; happiness by age; happiness and money; happiness, sports and health; happiness, friendship, love … relationships and sex life; and happiness, creativity and organization. The results show that money is not one of the major …The pursuit of happiness is a desire that everyone has in life. The behavioral economics can help to identify …
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Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction …. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution … rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The interrelationship between wealth (GDPpc), equality of income and …
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The allocation of limited resources to competing body parts during development may affect both the absolute and relative sizes of physical traits, creating potentially dramatic consequences for the evolution of morphology. While negative correlations between the sizes of body parts...
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Researchers in human resource management (HRM) have long been concerned with the attraction and retention of organizational members (Breaugh, 1992; Rynes, 1991; Vroom, 1966). However, as the U.S. work force has become more diverse (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000), the need to consider how issues of cultural...
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money but it is the organising feature of modern economies, giving rise to both episodes of stability and crises. In … constructing this argument I consider both orthodox and heterodox points of view. We analyse equilibrium models of money, and find … that while money can exist in sequence economies with frictions, models of this type give no justification for its creation …
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The theoretical relation between exchange rate and prices has been a difficult proposition to find supporting evidence despite many studies of developed economies using standard research methods. The exchange rate to price relation appears to hold in the long run only, a result consistent with...
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time-to-collision (TTC), distance, and rate of image expansion ( ROE), all of which have received empirical support. We …
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random effects. In this paper, the long-term survivor mixture model is extended for the analysis of multivariate failure time …
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