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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Relative Income"”.
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Income in Timor-Leste
… shown a negative relationship with rising peer income. Some recent studies have suggested that this relationship may not hold for poor nations. This study investigates the relationship between subjective well-being and relative income using the 2001 World Bank Timor-Leste Living Standards …
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Income in Timor-Leste
… shown a negative relationship with rising peer income. Some recent studies have suggested that this relationship may not hold for poor nations. This study investigates the relationship between subjective well-being and relative income using the 2001 World Bank Timor-Leste Living Standards …
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The Economics of Happiness: Exploring the Complex Relationship Between Income and Subjective Well-Being
… interested in the relationship between income, economic growth and happiness. Drawing on the existing literature and empirical evidence, this research seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the complex relationship between income and subjective well-being. This research …
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The influence of income on subjective well-being: An empirical study in transitional country of Vietnam
… the realm of economics, the correlation between income and happiness has long been a subject of scrutiny, particularly the phenomenon known as the income paradox. This paradox, first highlighted by Easterlin in 1974, questions why despite rising incomes, average happiness levels often remain …
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Essays in behavioral public economics
… in itself. My first two chapters study how relative concerns affect people's behavior. First, I show that people care about relative income (i.e., their position in the income distribution) when making location decisions using evidence from a field experiment. Second, I show that relative …
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Do regional characteristics moderate the effect of contextual income on life satisfaction?
… research has shown that both absolute and relative levels of income independently predict subjective well-being. Specifically, the income of proximal or salient comparison standards is negatively associated with life satisfaction, even controlling for personal income. Social comparison - …
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A multilevel study of effects of socioeconomic status, income inequality, and the built environment on adult obesity in China
… in health, and the other studies the effects of income inequality on health. They have tested three competing hypotheses – the absolute income hypothesis, the relative income hypothesis, and the income inequality hypothesis. Drawing upon both traditions, this dissertation aims to understand the …
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Risk preferences and the poverty trap : a look at technology uptake amongst small-scale farmers in the Western Cape
… poverty trap hypothesis postulates that very low income individuals may be trapped in poverty because severe constraints give rise to behaviour that limits their ability to take up and benefit from new investments. Furthermore, the theory suggests that insurance and credit can serve as effective …
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Economic consequences of family dissolution
… macro analysis of policy variation and household income changes on the micro-level, the main research question of the dissertation is to what extent economic consequences following separation and divorce in families with children have changed between the 1980s and the 2000s in Germany and the …
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An analysis of cigarette prices and affordability in Africa: evidence from African Cigarette Prices (ACP) Data
… is calculated from the interaction of consumer income and cigarette price. Governments of Low- and Middle-Income Countries have generally underutilized the most powerful tool in tobacco control, namely decreasing tobacco affordability by increasing tobacco taxes. I analyze price data collected …
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Retirees wellbeing and satisfaction: a case study in the ministry of health in Chililabombwe district, Copperbelt province, Zambia.
… the measures of economic well-being are pension, income and the wealth the retiree had before and after retirement. Social Security retirement, and earned income, as well as all other household income increases satisfaction during retirement. The other variables capture the type of pension a …
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Three Essays on Econometric Analysis
… the relationship between population health and income inequality in China. We use a multilevel dynamic panel model to test the absolute income hypothesis, various versions of relative income hypothesis, and health selection hypothesis empirically
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Exchange rate forecasting with an artificial neural network model : can we beat a random walk model?
… macroeconomic fundamental variables, including relative money supply, relative income, interest rate differential and inflation rate differential to examine whether or not the artificial neural network model could significantly improve the accuracy of describing the movement of exchange rates …
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Sugar-sweetened beverages in Nigeria: Affordability and expenditure and price elasticities
… examines how consumers in Nigeria respond to income and price changes of carbonated soft drinks (CSDs). I first analysed the trend in CSD and fruit juice affordability between 2005 and 2018. I subsequently estimated the own-price, cross-price and income elasticities of sugar, CSDs, chocolate …
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THE GENDERED IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC: EMPLOYMENT, INCOME AND UNPAID DOMESTIC WORK DURING COVID - 19 PANDEMIC IN EUROPE.
… has affected gender inequalities in employment, income, and unpaid domestic work and childcare across different European contexts, and which are the main underlying mechanisms on individual, meso and macro level that shape the gendered outcomes in times of global pandemic crisis. The first study …
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Essays in Gender and Labor Economics
… couples with children. Traditional models assume income pooling when allocating resources towards consumption expenditure, but this study uses a household bargaining approach, suggesting that relative income and power dynamics shape spending decisions. The hypothesis is that higher earnings by …
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ON THE ROLE AND USE OF INFORMATION IN ETHICAL CONSUMERISM
… with constant year-on-year increases of relative spending going towards ethically produced products. This thesis explores how these two phenomena could be related, where an increase in access to information leads to ever increasing adoption of an ethical consumer mindset due to the role …
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Three essays in political economy
… A long literature investigates the influence of income on voting behavior, but it focuses primarily on presidential elections. We ask whether economically self-interested voting is unique to the presidential elections, or if it also extends to House, Senate and gubernatorial elections. In …