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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019

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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You can’t be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline-level reduces …

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Retirement and unexpected health shocks

Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, … - 2017

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected...

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Time-use and subjective well-being : is diversity really the spice of life?

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2023

Using the American and the French time-use surveys, we examine whether people have a preference for a more diversified mix of activities, in the sense that they experience greater well-being when their time schedule contains many different activities rather than is concentrated on a very small...

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