@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp2237,
            	author={Senik, Claudia},
            	title={Is Man Doomed to Progress?},
            	year={2006},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={2237},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2237},
	abstract={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”.},
	keywords={panel data;subjective happiness;growth;expectations;adaptation},
            }