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A growing literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, yet less is known about its impact on utility. This paper estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing on well-being, by exploiting representative U.S. daily data. Using both a regression discontinuity and an event...
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reported by individuals and a categorical measure of life satisfaction. It is shown that there is a concave relationship … more symptoms of depression. Height has no significant association with life satisfaction in models with controls for … health and human capital. -- Height ; Depression ; Well-being ; Life satisfaction ; Health …
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Many argue that the rise in populist support in Europe and elsewhere stems from people feeling marginalised … capital and life satisfaction using data on 21,000 individuals from 14 European countries obtained from the Life in Transition … probit models the paper estimates the effect of social capital on life satisfaction by using an index for aggregate personal …
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-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether individuals' height is associated with higher or lower levels of life-satisfaction …. In simple models there is a positive but concave relationship between height and life satisfaction. However it is shown …
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