%0 Report
        %A Senik, Claudia
        %T Is Man Doomed to Progress?
        %D 2006
        %8 2006 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 2237
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2237
        %X 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”.
        %K panel data
%K subjective happiness
%K growth
%K expectations
%K adaptation