Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks
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- Christian Bayer & Falko Juessen, 2015. "Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 7(4), pages 160-187, October.
- Jüßen, Falko & Bayer, Christian, 2013. "Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks," Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79915, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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Keywords
incomplete markets; happiness; income persistence;JEL classification:
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-09-30 (All new papers)
- NEP-HAP-2012-09-30 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-MAC-2012-09-30 (Macroeconomics)
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