Is man doomed to progress?

Claudia Senik ()

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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; adaptation; subjective happiness; growth; expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-05
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