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CONDICIONES SOCIOECONÓMICAS Y FELICIDAD DE LOS ESPAÑOLES

Peiró, Amado - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2001

Though numerous surveys where people quantify their happiness or satisfaction are available, economic research has not analysed the association between these variables and their socioeconomic characteristics until recent years. By using the 1995 world values survey for Spain, this article aims...

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Measuring the Monetary Value of Social Relations: a Hedonic Approach

Colombo, Emilio; Stanca, Luca - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2013

This paper presents an application of the hedonic approach to measure the monetary price of social relations. We use individual-level data for housing and labor markets in 103 Italian cities to estimate the price of relational amenities and construct monetary indexes of quality of relational...

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Too Big to Jail or Too Abstract (or Rich) to Care

Flatt, Victor Byers - 2013

Why has environmental enforcement waned as environmental harms continue to grow bigger? This article, part of a symposium on enforcement of laws in the environmental and financial sectors, posits that a change in perceived immediacy of environmental harm, coupled with a change in communitarian...

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A new perspective on the economic valuation of informal care: The well-being approach revisited

Kehl, Konstantin; Stahlschmidt, Stephan - 2013

Informal care has drawn much attention among scholars and policymakers as it concerns an essential but hard to evaluate resource of welfare. Albeit several studies addressed the monetary value of informal care, di erences in the relationship between caregivers and recipients have often been...

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Life satisfaction and material well-being of children in the UK

Knies, Gundi - 2012

well-being has focused on improving the financial position of families with children. Using Understanding Society I show … measures of child poverty, introduced to help target effective policies that make a real difference to children's lives. Those … for families with children to an emphasis on increasing social contacts. …

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A new perspective on the economic valuation of informal care : the well-being approach revisited

Kehl, Konstantin; Stahlschmidt, Stephan - 2013 - Rev.

Informal care has drawn much attention among scholars and policymakers as it concerns an essential but hard to evaluate resource of welfare. Albeit several studies addressed the monetary value of informal care, differences in the relationship between caregivers and recipients have often been...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248501

A new perspective on the economic valuation of informal care : the well-being approach revisited

Kehl, Konstantin; Stahlschmidt, Stephan - 2013

Informal care has drawn much attention among scholars and policymakers as it concerns an essential but hard to evaluate resource of welfare. Albeit several studies addressed the monetary value of informal care, differences in the relationship between caregivers and recipients have often been...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777865

Testing the "Natural Rate of Suicide" Hypothesis

Virén, Matti - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1998

This paper analyses the economic determinants of suicide. More specifically, we test the hypothesis that suicide is related to shocks or news concerning income growth. Testing is based on an error correction model of suicide in which the long-run part takes into account various demographic and...

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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”

Branea, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...

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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children : Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

Birchenall, Javier Arturo; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2021

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

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