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This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …-country phenomenon. Our stand is that the idea that growth will increase happiness in low-income countries cannot be rejected on the …
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This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent … affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to …-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
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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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This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...
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This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763608
This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318994
How does the income of others affect my own welfare? This survey of the empirical literature stresses the contribution of subjective data to the understanding of this issue, with an attempt to disentangle direct effects (preference interdependence) from indirect informational effects. It shows...
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline-level reduces …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering a …
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