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This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
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multidimensional well-being from a capabilities perspective during the last one-and-a-half centuries. Relative inequality (population … development. These results are at odds with per capita income inequality that rose over time and only shrank from 1990 onwards … evolution of augmented human development inequality, although longevity made a substantial contribution until the 1920s. …
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Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only …
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Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
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We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575162
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578752
horizontal inequality-income disparity between migrants and urban residents - affects individual happiness. The main results are …This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban … China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, quot;bornquot; urban residents, and …
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