In this paper, we study the applicability of success in women's football as an indicator for female empowerment. Since football was for a long time a male-dominated sport, women's success in this sport may be a suitable empowerment measure. As a proxy variable for success, we employ the world...

This paper contributes to the question whether technology does increase subjective well-being in a society. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) document the inventiveness of a society and are a legal byproduct of innovations. The impact of these IPRs on subjective well-being are analyzed...