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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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Laboratory evidence for emotional externalities : an essay in honor of EJ Mishan

Sgroi, Daniel; Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J.; … - In: The Singapore economic review : journal of the Economic … 61 (2016) 3, pp. 1-25

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

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

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The effect of the Brexit referendum result on subjective well-being

Kavetsos, Georgios; Kawachi, Ichirō; Kyriopoulos, Ilias; … - 2018

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Happy voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2014

' response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …

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Happy voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2014

’ response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …

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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. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 75-92

We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual...

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Technological affluence and subjective well-being

Kavetsos, Georgios; Koutroumpis, Pantelis - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (2011) 5, pp. 742-753

This study measures the welfare effects of technological goods using a recent European pooled cross-sectional dataset. We find that fixed and mobile phones, music players and personal computers, including those with an Internet connection, are associated with significantly higher levels of...

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How persistent is life satisfaction? Evidence from European immigration

Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian; … - 2018

This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin and to what extent it adapts to that in their country of residence. We employ data from 29,000 immigrants in the European Social Survey to estimate the relative importance of...

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National Wellbeing and International Sports Events

Kavetsos, Georgios; Szymanski, Stefan - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2008

satisfaction (happiness) for twelve European countries we test for the impact of hosting and of national athletic success on … happiness. Our data covers three different major events: the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European … impact of national athletic success on happiness, while correctly signed, is statistically insignificant. …

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