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Is man doomed to progress?

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  • Senik, Claudia

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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”.

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Volume (Year): 68 (2008)
Issue (Month): 1 (October)
Pages: 140-152

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