Is man doomed to progress?

Claudia Senik ()

No 608, CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) from CEPREMAP

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: expectations; growth; subjective happiness; adaptation; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D9 I31 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2006-07
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