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A decomposition of multidimensional economic well-being : an application to Spanish regions
Díaz Caro, Carlos; Pérez Mayo, Jesús - 2015 - (Early draft version)
dimensions as adjusted consumption, real wealth, inequality and economic security. The analysis is performed between 2000 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475830
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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach
Okuyama, Naoko - 2017
Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...
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Do people choose what makes them happy and how do they decide at all? : a theoretical inquiry
Scheuer, Niklas - 2020
We develop a theoretical model that jointly explains optimal choices and happiness. We work with constant elasticity of substitution functions for utility and happiness. Employing a choice framework, individuals are confronted with two options. When there exists a trade-off, we determine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422914
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Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction : empirical evidence for U.S. hurricanes
Berlemann, Michael; Eurich, Marina - 2020
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...
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Climate and happiness in the tropics
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Siyaranamual, Martin D.; Ghina, … - 2016
Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from developing countries exist. Moreover, even though climate is among the most important input to human activities, only a handfull of studies explicitly associate it with...
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Born in the land of milk and honey : the impact of economic growth on individual wealth accumulation
Bartels, Charlotte; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2021
's birth place is an important determinant for wealth in adulthood. We exploit a new dataset that oversamples wealthy … individuals in Germany and includes information on birth district, current residence, individual wealth, gifts and inheritances … and parental background. To identify the effect of economic growth on children's wealth we match the population of heirs …
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A general equilibrium model of earnings, income, and wealth
Glawion, René; Haller, Frédéric; Puche, Marc - 2020
We develop a general equilibrium model of earnings, income and wealth heterogeneity in continuous time. We extend … interest rates provide a mechanism to link earnings, income and wealth distributions. We use this connection to demonstrate … that an increase in unemployment benefits leads to a rise in steady state wealth inequality measured by the Gini …
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The relationship between consumption and wealth : a quantile regression approach
Jawadi, Fredj; Sousa, Ricardo M. - In: Revue d'économie politique 124 (2014) 4, pp. 639-652
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The relationships between living conditions and life satisfaction of elderly people in Istanbul : 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association 26th-29th August 2014 i...
Berkoz, Lale; Yirmibesoclu, Funda - 2014
The rate of the elderly population increases rapidly throughout the world. The growth rate of the elderly population in the world is 2.1%, whereas the overall population growth rate is over 1.2 % (Mandiraoglu, 2010). The elderly population rate in the United States varies between 15% and 20 %....
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Does the adoption of information and communication technologies improve the subjective well-being of citizens? : a micro-level and city-level empirical investigation : paper presen...
Feng, Xiaodong; Krishna Jayakar; Zhang, Huiping; Tang, … - 2018
This paper investigates the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) adoption and usage in enhancing the subjective well-being (SWB) of citizens, using the latest available China General Social Survey (CGSS) database. The impact is assessed using a two-level hierarchical linear...
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