Title: Is man doomed to 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.
Subjects: Consumption (Economics), Longitudinal studies, Progress
Places: Russia (Federation)