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Montagnoli, Alberto; Vaona, Andrea - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2015

We apply recent money illusion tests on data on individual life satisfaction from the Eurobarometer for the period 1980 …

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Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? - The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day …

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The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa: A Decomposable Gini Analysis.

Leibbrandt, M.V.; Woolard, C.D.; Woolard, I.D. - World Bank Group - 1996

Households in developing countries adopt livelihood strategies that often rely on income from a diversity of sources. From a policy perspective it therefore becomes important to understand the relative importance of income sources in driving inter-household inequality and poverty.

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...

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Austria's Well-being Goes Beyond GDP

Röhn, Oliver; Gönenç, Rauf; Beer, Christian; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

inequality and poverty. This has been combined with gains in leisure time, especially time spent in retirement, low unemployment …

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Happiness in Europe

Pedersen, Peder J.; Schmidt, Torben Dall - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 480-489

Data in the European Community Household Panel are used to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a … life satisfaction and income utilizing also the panel property of the data. We find an impact from the level of income only … change in income has a significant impact on satisfaction. For all countries in the panel we find a significant impact from …

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A Note on Modelling Dynamics in Happiness Estimations

Piper, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This short note discusses two alternative ways to model dynamics in happiness regressions. A explained, this may be important when standard fixed effects estimates have serial correlation in the residuals, but is also potentially useful when serial correlation is not a problem for providing new...

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Should National Happiness be Maximized?

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

Cross-disciplinary ?happiness research? has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we postulate that the appropriate approach is not to...

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Ending the Entitlement of Poor Mothers, Expanding the Claims of Poor Employed Parents: Gender, Race, Class in Contemporary US Social Policy.

Orloff, A.S. - European Forum, European University Institute - 1999

The author wants to note that welfare reform is but one part of what is happening politically to gender relations, to women, and to poor mothers, even within the system of income support, in the United States. Of particular importance within income support is the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC),...

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