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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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The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520563
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The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531198
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Sozialrechtliche Regelbedarfsleistungen: Kritik und Reformbedarf
Schüssler, Reinhard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 1, pp. 63-67
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat 2010 die sozialrechtlichen Regelbedarfsleistungen für verfassungswidrig erklärt und Nachbesserungen gefordert. Im Juli 2014 hat nun das Bundesverfassungsgericht die eingeleiteten Maßnahmen als gerade noch verfassungsgemäß bewertet. Um aktuell die...
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Warum gibt es viel mehr Armutsgefährdete als Bezieher von Grundsicherungsleistungen?
Schüssler, Reinhard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 8, pp. 556-562
Armut ist ein weiter Begriff. Die Kriterien, wann Armut anfängt, sind durchaus umstritten. So erhalten in Deutschland … population in Germany receives basic social benefits; however, according to the Laeken indicators used across Europe, over 20 per …
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Going beyond average Joe's Happiness: Using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - 2010
distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …
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How does online streaming affect antitrust remedies to centralized marketing? The case of European football broadcasting rights
Budzinski, Oliver; Gänßle, Sophia; … - 2019
The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed if it complies with a number of conditions and obligations, inter alia, partial unbundling and the no-single-buyer rule. These regulations were defined with traditional...
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Effects of the three-point rule in German amateur football
Dilger, Alexander; Froböse, Gerrit - 2018
leagues in Germany, concretely in Westphalia. There are as expected signifi-cantly less draws and more goals since the rule … in Deutschland, konkret in Westfalen. Es gibt erwartungsgemäß signifikant weniger Unentschieden und mehr Tore seit der …
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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
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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. - 2010
social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …
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