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%T Is man doomed to progress? %A Senik, Claudia %J Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization %N 1 %P 140-152 %V 68 %D 2008 %K Expectations; Growth; Subjective happiness; Adaptation; Panel data; C23; D31; D84; D91; I31; Z13 %= 2011-09-05T10:05:00Z %~ http://www.peerproject.eu/ %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-264000 %X This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using 10 waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), 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". This contributes to qualify the "Easterlin paradox" that income growth does not make people happy. %C NLD %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info