In this paper, we attempt to show why the importance of relational goods compared to conventional goods and status … goods threatens to decline in contemporary societies. In our point of view, the development of the relative significance of … these three types of goods is not a consequence of preference changes but of significant alterations in the opportunity …

impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions … anti-smoking policies on people with different propensities to smoke. We find that higher cigarette prices reduce the life …