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The relationship between happiness and health: evidence from Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2011

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample (n = 817) of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011. Based on probit...

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Does social capital create trust? Evidence from a community of entrepreneurs

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2009

is a safe place, and the establishment of corporate ties through professional associations. Trust in people is positively …Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …

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What are we learning from the life satisfaction literature?

Becchetti, Leonardo; Pelloni, Pelloni , Alessandra - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010

The recent availability of cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data on life satisfaction in a large number of countries gives us the opportunity to verify empirically (and not just to assume) what matters for individuals and what economists and policymakers should take into account when...

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Children, happiness and taxation

Becchetti, Leonardo; Giachin Ricca, Elena; Pelloni, … - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010

Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable among available controls without fully discriminating between the two (sociorelational and pecuniary) components. In our empirical analysis on the German Socioeconomic Panel we...

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Sociability is like skiing: multiple equilibria in education, sociability and life satisfaction

Becchetti, Leonardo; Solferino, Solferino , Nazaria; … - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2013

Empirical evidence documents that other regarding activities (voluntary/charity work, helping friends/neighbours) done with other regarding motivations contribute positively and signi cantly to subjective wellbeing. The question is why only a re- stricted group of people performs these...

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Family money, relational life and (class) relative wealth: an empirical analysis on life satisfaction of secondary school students

Becchetti, Leonardo; Pisani, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012

factors are geographical residence (those living in Milan are significantly less happy), mother’s occupation, trust on family …

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Does money affect happiness and self-esteem? The poor borrowers' perspective in a quasi-natural experiment

Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2008

Research on the nexus between life satisfaction and income has looked at lottery winners or postcommunism transition to document that exogenous changes in income generate effects of the same sign on happiness. In this paper we consider the unfortunate tsunami event as a negative lottery and...

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Inside the Life Satisfaction Blackbox

Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Samà, Paola - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012

We propose a measure of life satisfaction, alternative to the standard synthetic cognitive wellbeing question, based on the specific contribution of eleven life satisfaction sub-components (including satisfaction about the past, life opportunities, hope for the future, vitality, control over...

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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being

Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2013

We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...

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Creditworthiness as a signal of trustworthiness

Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Pierluigi - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010

Creditworthiness and trustworthiness are almost synonyms since the act of conferring a loan has the indirect effect of signaling the trustworthiness of the borrower. We test the creditworthiness-trustworthiness nexus in an investment game experiment on a sample of participants/non participants...

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