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Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per …-term positive association between the growth of happiness and income, arising from fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions, with … the long-term relationship, which is nil. -- Happiness ; economic growth ; developing countries ; transition countries …
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rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International comparisons of quality of life (QoL … sometimes, as in the case of happiness and life satisfaction, QoL indicators remain unchanged despite a doubling or more of real …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …
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We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
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-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …
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