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This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
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We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …
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We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …
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entrance degree but no further professional qualification as well as for those who were in the upper percentiles of the income …
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This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses … cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and income in the past four decades reveals that the long-term trade …
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relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …
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This paper presents and estimates a small open economy dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model (DSGE) for the Jordanian economy. The model features nominal and real rigidities, imperfect competition and habit formation in the consumer’s utility function. Oil imports are explicitly...
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in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …
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We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …
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and health issues. Our primary goals in this paper are (a) to present details on two of the variables which will be of … particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the …
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