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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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' 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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’ 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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The paper assesses perceived job insecurity as a determinant of current subjective well-being and demonstrates that standard models may yield significantly downward biased estimates.
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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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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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