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The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society’s economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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The Distributional Consequences of Russia's Transition

Doyle, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper considers the distributional consequences of the reform programme in Russia. Although a small fraction of the population have gained under the reforms, average real household per capita income has declined significantly with households at the lower end of the income distribution...

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What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?

Lechner, Michael; Smith, Jeffrey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We investigate the allocation of unemployed individuals to different subprograms within Swiss active labour market policy by the caseworkers at local employment offices in Switzerland in 1998. We are particularly interested in whether the caseworkers allocate the unemployed to services in ways...

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Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programs: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Caeyers, Bet; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

charge of food transfers, in terms of free food aid or food-for-work programs. We find that although targeting is clearly …

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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Walter, Thomas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare …

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Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

to incentives by targeting their efforts towards more able workers, implying that both the mean and the dispersion …

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Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan

Coudouel, Aline; Marnie, Sheila; Micklewright, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

are used from a 1995 household survey to assess the scheme's success in targeting the most vulnerable households, using a …

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Poole in the New Keynesian Model

Collard, Fabrice; Dellas, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We study the properties of alternative central bank targeting procedures within the standard New Keynesian model. We … find that Poole’s famous insights concerning the output stabilization properties of money and interest-rate targeting …. Unlike the popular presumption, money targeting always fares better for money demand shocks. For fiscal shocks, money …

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