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-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their … associated with higher job mobility. We conclude that low relative income (compared to the neighbors) reduces workers' happiness …
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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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Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from … (temperature and rainfalls) on individual subjective well-being. We found that happiness is not associated with temperature, as … significantly associated with self-reported happiness. We found that the relationship is not linear, where higher rainfall is …
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Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on sociological theory and using spatial regression techniques, I introduce social network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers within the class. In a spatial...
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