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Pricing urban congestion: A structural random utility model with traffic anticipation

Viauroux, Christelle - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 7, pp. 877-902

We design and estimate a game theoretic congestion pricing mechanism in which the regulator aims at reducing urban traffic congestion by price discriminating travelers according to their value of time (VOT). Travelers' preferences depend on their observable characteristics, on the endogenous...

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Income Distribution and Subjective Happiness: A Survey

Senik, Claudia - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2009

This survey summarises the insights that the new literature based on subjective data has shed on the issue of income inequality and income comparisons. It reviews the various channels that relate income distribution and subjective well-being. It considers the welfare effect of income gaps in...

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Happiness and Age Cycles - Return to Start...?: On the Functional Relationship between Subjective Well-Being and Age

Fischer, Justina A.V. - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2009

Previous happiness research has explicitly assumed that subjective well-being is U-shaped in age. This paper sheds new light on this issue testing several functional forms. Using micro data from the World Values Survey on 44 000 persons in 30 economically advanced OECD countries with long life...

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Suffer the little children: Measuring the effects of parenthood on well-being worldwide

Stanca, Luca - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 3, pp. 742-750

This paper investigates the relationship between parenthood and well-being in a large sample of individuals from 94 countries worldwide. We find that having children is negatively related to well-being. Conditioning on economic and socio-demographic characteristics can only partially help to...

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How Much is Social Capital Worth?

Helliwell, John F.; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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Estimates of the Benefit Incidence of Workfare

Ronconi, Lucas - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2009)

Workfare has become a central policy in Argentina since mid-2002, when the government increased the number of beneficiaries from 100,000 to two million people in a country of thirty-nine million. In this paper I assess the focalization of the program and estimate its income effects using...

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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1-122). 2006

Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies, through their various occurrences: in families; among the diverse motives of the political and public sector; as the general respect and moral conduct which permit life in...

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“It's driving her mad”: Gender differences in the effects of commuting on psychological health

Roberts, Jennifer; Hodgson, Robert; Dolan, Paul - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1064-1076

Commuting is an important component of time use for most working people. We explore the effects of commuting time on … commuting such as income, job satisfaction and housing quality. Our results show that, even after these variables are considered …, commuting has an important detrimental effect on the psychological health of women, but not men, and this result is robust to …

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Estimation of travel time variability for cars, buses, metro and door-to-door public transport trips in Santiago, Chile

Durán-Hormazábal, Elsa; Tirachini, Alejandro - In: Research in transportation economics 59 (2016), pp. 26-39

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Societal benefits and costs of international investment agreements : a critical review of aspects and available empirical evidence

Pohl, Joachim - 2018

This paper reviews alleged societal benefits and costs of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) as suggested by academia, governments, business and civil society. It sets out the wide range of issues that diverse actors have proposed in the context of assessing the societal benefits and...

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