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Innovation, public policy and growth : what the data say

Akcigit, Ufuk - In: Macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies, (pp. 9-22). 2022

Innovation and technological progress are the key determinants of long-run economic growth and welfare. Therefore, an important question is, how can public policy encourage more innovation? In this chapter, I review some of the empirical findings from various recent studies on innovation and...

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When place is too big : happy town and unhappy metropolis

Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam - 2015 - Draft: Monday 10th November, 2014

well-being (happiness) by size (population) of a place to find out when a place is too big. The answer is somewhere between …

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[Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with 'subjective' indicators for human and social capital]

Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens … - 2015

Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...

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The relationships between living conditions and life satisfaction of elderly people in Istanbul : 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association 26th-29th August 2014 i...

Berkoz, Lale; Yirmibesoclu, Funda - 2014

The rate of the elderly population increases rapidly throughout the world. The growth rate of the elderly population in the world is 2.1%, whereas the overall population growth rate is over 1.2 % (Mandiraoglu, 2010). The elderly population rate in the United States varies between 15% and 20 %....

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Does globalization lead to happiness? : experience from Asian lower-middle income countries using pooled mean group (PMG) model

Kumari, Neha; Sahu, Naresh Chandra; Kumar, Pushp - In: Critical perspIectives on emerging economies : an …, (pp. 1-16). 2021

The economics of happiness has emerged as an important area of research in the past few decades. The well-being of the … the chapter is to examine the impact of globalization on happiness in Asian lower-middle income countries (LMICs) from the … globalization and happiness, respectively. The empirical results show that globalization has a positive impact on happiness in the …

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Ozone pollution, health and well-being

Rechlitz, Julia; Sarmiento, Luis; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2019

This paper evaluates the effect of ozone pollution on individuals' subjective health satisfaction and well-being, allowing us to capture both direct and indirect effects of ozone pollution on adults. Specifically, we focus on differences between households with and without children. We combine...

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Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction : empirical evidence for U.S. hurricanes

Berlemann, Michael; Eurich, Marina - 2020

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...

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Measuring female entrepreneurs' happiness from online feedback

Ozyirmidokuz, Esra Kahya; Uyar, Kumru; Stoica, Eduard … - In: Organizations and performance in a complex world : 26th …, (pp. 91-100). 2021

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From pain patient to junkie : an economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity

Strulik, Holger - 2019

In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit accumulation with the theory of addiction. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a persistent negative shock to lifetime utility that can be treated by pain relief medication. Some...

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The well-being of elderly survivors after natural disasters : measuring the impact of the great east Japan earthquake

Sugano, Saki - In: The Japanese economic review : the journal of the … 67 (2016) 2, pp. 211-229

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