Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross …-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where … individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are …