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Can money change who we are? : estimating the effects of unearned income on measures of incentive-enhancing personality
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M. - 2011
studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality … traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity problems from prize sizes, we find that unearned income improves traits …. -- noncognitive skills ; personality traits ; lottery winners ; instrumental variables ; unearned income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521228
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Can Money Change Who We are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011
studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality … traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity problems from prize sizes, we find that unearned income improves traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118044
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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...
Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011
satisfaction for subjective well-being (SWB) and relative income and employment security for objective well-being (OWB). We ran …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601027
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The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited
Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2003
This paper examines the effects of union decline in Britain on changes in earnings dispersion between 1983 and 1995. As part and parcel of the exercise, the effects of changes in the wage gap and the variance gap are also calculated. Detailed findings are provided by gender and broad sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276571
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Can money change who we are? estimating the effects of unearned income on measures of incentive-enhancing personality
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M. - 2011
studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality … traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity problems from prize sizes, we find that unearned income improves traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282309
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Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples
Kan, Man-Yee; Laurie, Heather - 2010
This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in savings, investments and debts by couple members, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288971
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Racism, xenophobia, and redistribution
Lee, Woojin; Roemer, John E.; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2005
We report here a summary of our recent research on the effect that the race issue, in the United States, and the immigration issue in European countries, is having on the degree of redistribution and the size of the public sector that is implemented through political competition. We model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527493
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Tony Atkinson and his legacy
Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense, rejecting any sub-field labelling of his interests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703653
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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy
Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019
the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that the new guaranteed minimum income scheme introduced in 2019 … significantly strengthens Italy’s low income protection system but can also financially discourage recipients from working. The … debated flattening of personal income tax rates would do little to improve work incentives, but would drastically cut tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202861
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Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples
Kan, Man-Yee; Laurie, Heather - 2010
This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in savings, investments and debts by couple members, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758928