TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Senik, Claudia
        TI  - Is Man Doomed to Progress?
        PY  - 2006/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2237
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2237
        AB  - 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”.
        KW  - panel data
KW  - subjective happiness
KW  - growth
KW  - expectations
KW  - adaptation
        ER  -