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Relational Goods, Sociability, and Happiness

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014

matter by showing that the effects of sociability on happiness are stronger for women, older and less educated individuals …

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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2014

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

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The Impact of Soft Traits and Cognitive Abilities on Life Outcomes : Subjective Wellbeing, Education Achievement, and Rational Choices: A Chocolate Tasting Experiment

Savastano, Sara - 2014

Linking to a growing literature in behavioral economics, this study combines neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics to empirically analyze the extent to which academic achievement, the relative weight of rationality vs. fairness in decision-making, and life satisfaction are affected...

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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being

Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - 2014

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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Education, Health and Subjective Wellbeing in Europe

Becchetti, Leonardo; Conzo, Pierluigi; Pisani, Fabio - 2015

The productive and allocative theories predict that education has positive impact on health: the more educated adopt healthier life styles and use more efficiently health inputs and this explains why they live longer. We find partial support for these theories with an econometric analysis on a...

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The Value of Diplomacy : Bilateral Relations and Immigrant Well-Being

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2011

This paper attempts to establish the value of good relationships between countries by considering their effect on a group of individuals who are arguably intimately affected by them: immigrants. We appeal to an index of conflict/cooperation which is calculated as an annual weighted sum of news...

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On the Causal Impact of Relational Goods on Happiness

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014

We study the effect of relational goods on life satisfaction. We consider that retirement is an event after which the time investable in personal relationships increases so we instrument social life, which we suspect of being endogenous, with the sample proportion of retired by year. With such...

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Inside the Life Satisfaction Blackbox

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014

We propose a measure of life satisfaction, alternative to the standard synthetic cognitive wellbeing question, based on the specifi c 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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The Spread Nightmare : Financial Crises and Happiness

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014

the word happiness from Italy and from Germany on Google.We propose a simple model to explain the relationship among life … dissatisfaction, Google happiness search and the level of the spread between the 10-year yields of Italian and German government bonds …. We empirically find a strongly significant and positive correlation between the spread and happiness, net of the impact …

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Family Money, Relational Life and (Class) Relative Wealth : An Empirical Analysis on Life Satisfaction of Secondary School Students

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014

We investigate factors affecting happiness on a sample of Italian secondary school students. We find that money matters …

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