Flat (or fixed) attorney fees, despite their popularity, have been rarely studied by theorists and empiricists. This article builds informal theoretical models to describe the incentive schemes of rational attorneys and rational litigants. Rational attorneys who collect flat fees in advance...

We estimate the distributional effects of freedom and income on happiness for East Asian Chinese societies through an ordinal parametric quantile regression approach. The results show that freedom and income exhibit positive and significant effects across societies and happiness levels. The...

Cross-society comparisons have become increasingly important to the study of the perceived quality of life. A major critique of these studies, however, is the lack of attention to intra-culture variation. This paper examines how subjective quality of life differs, at both societal and individual...

The single-item measure of general happiness has been widely used in questionnaires due to the advantages of easy implementation in surveys for comparison across time and culture. The balanced response scale that includes equal positive and negative response categories based on Likert-type...