Is Man Doomed to Progress?

Claudia Senik ()

No 2237, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, 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”.

Keywords: panel data; subjective happiness; growth; expectations; adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D9 I31 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2006-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-hpe and nep-soc
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Published - published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (1), 140-152

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