Polgreen, Linnea; Simpson, Nicole - Department of Economics, Colgate University - 2010
In this paper, we consider the extent to which the aggregate happiness of a country affects the flow of people across … its borders. We merge data from the World Values Survey, which produces happiness indices for 84 countries between 1981 … and 2004, with three different migration datasets. We find that happiness has a U-shaped relationship with emigration …