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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

countries worldwide. We find that having children is negatively related to well-being. Conditioning on economic and socio … number of children as a proxy variable to account for the endogeneity of parenthood decisions. …

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Children, Happiness and Taxation

Becchetti, Leonardo; Ricca, Elena Giachin; Pelloni, … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable … driven by heterogeneous opportunity costs. Our empirical results give rise to a paradox: why people have children if the … paradox are strictly connected. Effectiveness of tax/subsidies impacting on fertility crucially depends on whether the …

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Children, happiness and taxation

Becchetti, Leonardo; Ricca, Elena Giachin; Pelloni, … - Econometica - 2009

are strictly connected. Effectiveness of tax/subsidies impacting on fertility crucially depends on whether the children …Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable … children if the aggregate effect on life satisfaction is negative? We provide in the paper some interpretations consistent with …

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DISTRIBUCIÓN DE LA RENTA Y EL POTENCIAL DE CALIDAD DE VIDA (QLP) EN ESPAÑA (1981-1999)

Gisbert, Francisco José Goerlich; Pallejà, Rafael Pinilla - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2003

The Quality Life Potential, QLP is a new well-being measure. The QLP combines income above social poverty line with life expectancy at any age according to the quality life function. The objective of this research is to show the feasibility and relevance of QLP estimation with available...

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Does Aid Work for the Poor?

McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; … - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011

This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has looked mainly at the relationship between aid and...

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Needs and Wants: What is Social Progress and How Should it be Measured

Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg has the daunting task of examining the conceptual issues involved in defining and measuring social progress. As he highlights in his introduction, while much had been made of the fact that Canada in 2000 earned first place in the United Nations' Human Development...

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Measuring the monetary value of social relations: A hedonic approach

Colombo, Emilio; Stanca, Luca - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 50 (2014) C, pp. 77-87

This paper presents an application of the hedonic approach to measure the monetary price of social relations. We use micro data for housing and labor markets in the 103 Italian province capitals to estimate the price of relational amenities and construct monetary indices of quality of relational...

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Measuring the Monetary Value of Social Relations: a Hedonic Approach

Colombo, Emilio; Stanca, Luca - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2013

This paper presents an application of the hedonic approach to measure the monetary price of social relations. We use individual-level data for housing and labor markets in 103 Italian cities to estimate the price of relational amenities and construct monetary indexes of quality of relational...

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Building sustainability through greater happiness

Bartolini, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2014

The current unsustainable growth of the world economy is largely a consequence of the crisis of social capital experienced by much of the world's population. Declining social capital leads the economies to excessive growth, because people seek economic affluence as compensation for the emotional...

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CONDICIONES SOCIOECONÓMICAS Y FELICIDAD DE LOS ESPAÑOLES

Peiró, Amado - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2001

Though numerous surveys where people quantify their happiness or satisfaction are available, economic research has not analysed the association between these variables and their socioeconomic characteristics until recent years. By using the 1995 world values survey for Spain, this article aims...

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