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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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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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Simultaneity bias in the analysis of perceived job insecurity and subjective well-being

Geishecker, Ingo - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 319-321

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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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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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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The asymmetric experience of positive and negative economic growth : global evidence using subjective well-being data

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; De Keulenaer, Femke - 2015

Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are experienced. We find that measures of life satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to...

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Individual experience of positive and negative growth is asymmetric : evidence from subjective well-being data

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; De Keulenaer, Femke - 2014

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Would you choose to be happy? : tradeoffs between happiness and the other dimensions of life in a large population survey

Adler, Matthew D.; Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 139 (2017), pp. 60-73

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Individual experience of positive and negative growth is asymmetric : global evidence from subjective well-being data

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; De Keulenaer, Femke - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484158