Is man doomed to progress?

Senik, Claudia

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%T Is man doomed to progress?
%A Senik, Claudia
%J Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
%N 1
%P 140-152
%V 68
%D 2008
%K Expectations; Growth; Subjective happiness; Adaptation; Panel data; C23; D31; D84; D91; I31; Z13
%= 2011-09-05T10:05:00Z
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%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-264000
%X This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using 10 waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of inter-temporal consumption, agents are more satisfied with an increasing time profile of consumption: they seem to have a strong "taste for improvement". This contributes to qualify the "Easterlin paradox" that income growth does not make people happy.
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%G en
%9 journal article
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