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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - CESifo - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Oswald, Andrew J. - CESifo - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person’s well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
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On the Causes and Consequences of Divorce
Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia; Mammini, Claudio - CESifo - 2008
In most Western economies, the flourishing of the Welfare State has coincided with a decline of the role of the family: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of the informal safety net in a period when social...
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Competitive Markets, Collective Decisions and Group Formation
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2003
We consider a general equilibrium model where groups operating in a competitive market environment can have several members and make efficient collective consumption decisions. Individuals have the option to leave the group and make it on their own or join another group. We study the effect of...
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Bargaining Power and Equilibrium Consumption
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2005
We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...
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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - CESifo - 2008
We reassess the “scarring” hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person’s current life satisfaction even after the person hasbecome reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...
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A Theory of Tolerance
Corneo, Giacomo; Jeanne, Olivier - CESifo - 2007
We develop an economic theory of tolerance where lifestyles and traits are invested with symbolic value by people …
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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What’s in a Name?
Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - CESifo - 2004
Plenty. This paper analyzes two broad questions: Does your first name matter? And how did you get your first name anyway? Using data from the National Opinion Research Centers (NORC’s) General Social Survey, including access to respondents first names from the 1994 and 2002 surveys, we extract...
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The Child Adoption Marketplace: Parental Preferences and Adoption Outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - CESifo - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the causes for the variability in adoption expenses? We administered a survey to a sample of Michigan adoptive families to link adoptive parent characteristics, child...
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