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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …
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-resolution meteorological data, we introduce a new proxy for income uncertainty - mean-preserving rainfall variability - and estimate that an … increase in income uncertainty is associated with reductions in objective consumption and subjective well-being (SWB …
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effect of hurricane risk on individual self-reported life satisfaction. In order to do so we combine geo-referenced survey … satisfaction in a two-way fixed effects model. Our findings indicate that regions with comparatively high hurricane risk report … significantly lower levels of life satisfaction than their counterparts in less hurricane-prone regions, even after controlling for …
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We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables one to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account....
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