Is man doomed to progress?
By: by Claudia Senik
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2237; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2237
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Longitudinal studies; Progress
Description: "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""--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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