We investigate the relationship between participation in physical activity and self reported happiness in the United States. IV estimates based on data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System between 2005 and 2009 and County Business Patterns indicate that individuals living in a county with greater access to sports facilities are more likely to participate in physical activity and ...

Pareto improvements that require no information about individual characteristics are analyzed. Initially, equilibrium must be production inefficient. After the policy change, consumer prices differ from producer prices, but allocations, although second-best, are Pareto superior and production efficient. Policy implementation is modeled as a dynamical system that governs aggregate consumer wealt...

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. This paper argues that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and endeavors to provide an impression of this new, and challenging, development. We study data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to better understand (i) t...

We examine self-control problems — modeled as time-inconsistent, presentbiased preferences—in a model where a person must do an activity exactly once. We emphasize two distinctions: Do activities involve immediate costs or immediate rewards, and are people sophisticated or naive about future self-control problems? Naive people procrastinate immediate-cost activities and preproperate—do too soon...

This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant from studies on the US and Western European countries have a similar impact on happiness in Eastern ...

A thermal-death-time (TDT) disk was designed to evaluate microbiological inactivation kinetics by heat. A first order inactivation kinetic model is described by the D value and the z value. These kinetic data are critical in the design, operation and regulation of thermal pasteurization. D and z values of Salmonella enteritidis strain 13076 and Escherichia coli K12 in liquid whole egg and liqui...

Soil is a material consisting of mineral grains bonded to one another. itself has various types. One them clay. Clay soil microscopic particles that come from weathering rocks. The water content in clay tends be high so it low bearing capacity. In addition, also shrinkage. Therefore, the management soils must handled properly. method used Gradation Sieve, Liquid Limit, and Plastic Limit. These ...

Previous literature on the exchange rate and household consumption failed to examine effect of positive negative changes in expenditures. We extended available by investigating asymmetric impacts African emerging economies (AEE). To attain this aim, we utilized nonlinear ARDL model, which covers both shocks rate. Our results indicate that movements have all included economies, excluding Nigeria...