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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue SPRING, 2008, Pages 88-95

  Becker, Gary S ^a   Rayo, Luis ^a  

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EID: 55349089615     PISSN: 00072303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. See, for example, the recommendations in Robert Frank, Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess (Free Press, 1999), and Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Penguin Press, 2005).
2. See Andrew E. Clark, Paul Frijters, and Michael A. Shields, "Income and Happiness: Evidence, Explanations, and Economic Implications," PSE Working Paper 2006-24 (Paris: Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2006).
3. See, for example, Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (Norton, 1997).
4. As modeled in Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein, "Hedonic Adaptation," in Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, edited by Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999);
5. Arthur J. Robson, "The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior," Journal of Economic Literature, 39, no. 1 (2001): 11-33;
6. Luis Rayo and Gary S. Becker, "Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness," Journal of Political Economy 115, no. 2 (2007): 302-37.
7. Cited in Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness (Knopf, 2006), p. 15.
8. Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec, "Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics," Journal of Economic Literature 43 (March 2005): 9-64; for a discussion of mechanisms other than feelings that guide behavior, see Paul M. Romer, "Thinking and Feeling," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 90, no. 2 (2000): 439-43.
9. For example, Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, "Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility," IEW Working Paper 218, University of Zurich and University of Basel, 2004.
10. Frey and Stutzer, "Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility."
11. See, for example, Donna B. Gilleskie and Amy L. Harrison, "The Effect of Endogenous Health Inputs on the Relationship between Health and Education," Economics of Education Review 17, no. 3 (1998): 279-95.
12. Milton Friedman, A Theory of the Consumption Function: A Study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York (Princeton University Press, 1957).
13. James S. Duesenberry, Income, Saving and the Theory of Consumer Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1949).
14. See, for example, Jacob Mincer, "Labor Force Participation of Married Women: A Study of Labor Supply," in Aspects of Labor Economics: A Conference of the Universities - National Bureau Committee for Economic Research, edited by H. G. Lewis (Princeton University Press, 1962).