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This study investigates whether energy efficiency investments are driven by differences in personality traits among homeowners. Using data on nearly 3,000 households in Germany, we estimate that compared to the median level, homeowners in the lowest quartile of Openness to Experience have 5.0%-23.4% lower propensity to invest in capital-intensive energy efficiency measures, while homeowners in the ...
University of Cambridge,
2017,
(Research Gate Working Paper)
| Ante Busic-Sontic, Franz Fuerst
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This paper evaluates how a reform relaxing regulations of the temporary help service sector in Germany affected job satisfaction of male temporary agency workers. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach using rich survey data. We find that the regulatory change substantially decreased agency workers’ job satisfaction while leaving regular ...
In:
Industrial Relations
56 (2017), 3, 514-544
| Henna Busk, Elke J. Jahn, Christine Singer
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Many governments invest substantial public funds to foster early childhood education. And yet, there are still many open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early childcare. We use the introduction of free public daycare in German states to analyze its effects on children and their families. Our results suggest that effects of the policy differ by child age, gender ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 958)
| Anna Busse, Christina Gathmann
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In:
Proceedings of the 1998 Third International Conference of the GSOEP Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
68 (1999), 2, 249-254
| Barbara A. Butrica
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Despite the interdependence between cognitive and noncognitive skills, empirical studies have shown a longer period of acquisition in life-time for the latter besides relevance for educational and labor market success. Analyzing returns of investments during different periods of life is therefore economically meaningful. We evaluate the effects of a substantial increase in the amount of curriculum ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
177 (2014), 4, 861-892
| Bettina Büttner, Hendrik Thiel, Stephan L. Thomsen
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In:
Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik ,
Happiness & Economic Growth
Oxford: Oxford University Press
32-139
| Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". The extension of public amenities has certainly contributed to this greater happiness ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
62 (2016), 3, 405-419
| Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik
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Paris:
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques,
2006,
(PSE Working Paper No. 2006-24)
| Andrew E. Clark, Paul Frijters, Michael A. Shields
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The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found positive correlations between individual income and individual measures of subjective well-being. This paper suggests that these two findings are consistent with the presence of relative income terms in the utility ...
In:
Journal of Economic Literature
46 (2008), 1, 95-144
| Andrew E. Clark, Paul Frijters, Michael A. Shields
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Paris:
DELTA,
2004,
| Andrew E. Clark, Yannis Georgellis