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Essays on Individual Perceptions of Economic Reforms
Popova, Olga ; Lízal, Lubomír (advisor) ; Filer, Randall (referee) ; Kahanec, Martin (referee)
Happiness economics is a relatively new field that has attracted the attention of researchers from many areas. Happiness economics explores the relationships between different aspects of individual life such as socioeconomic characteristics, attitudes, beliefs and individual well-being. In this field, life satisfaction is frequently used as an indicator of the level of individual well-being. Although subjective data can provide meaningful information regarding different aspects of individual life, their usefulness for policy purposes is still undervalued. In this dissertation, several issues are addressed. First, the impact of two corruption measures, state capture and individual perceptions of corruption, on voters' behavior and on the outcomes of elections is examined. Second, the effects of economic reforms on life satisfaction of religious and non-religious people are analyzed. Third, the impact of the euro introduction on life satisfaction is evaluated. The first chapter examines to what extent voting behavior of people with different employment status and the distribution of votes are affected by regional differences in corruption. Using data from the Russian Parliamentary (State Duma) Elections of 1999 and 2003, I develop and estimate a SUR system of equations which takes into account...
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