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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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extensively by economists, can be understood as a synonym for life satisfaction or happiness. Industrial societies and …In the most rational sense, the pursuit of happiness is the end goal of all our actions. Utility, a word used … European Social Survey and the World Value survey, two data sets that contain expressed preferences, to bring to light some of …
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life satisfaction? This study examines subjective economic welfare and life satisfaction using the Russia Longitudinal …. This study aims to provide a possible explanation of the 'Easterlin Paradox' a phenomenon in which individuals 'happiness … increases with income, yet an increase in income of the whole society does not necessarily increase the happiness of all (1974 …
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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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and subjective well-being. Using Veenhoven's happiness dataset, the evidence suggests countries with better economic … confounders of national subjective well-being such as income, unemployment, inequality, social capital and life satisfaction. The … effect of institutions on cross-national happiness is both significant and robust to different model specifications …
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shares are positively associated with happiness, while that the relationship with life satisfaction is less certain. The …We use data from the World Wealth & Income Database, the European Values Surveys and World Values Surveys to estimate … positive link between top income shares and happiness is present in a subsample of Western countries. We discuss possible …
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satisfaction such that capitalism confers more life satisfaction on men than on women. We test empirically whether this concern is … for general life satisfaction. When looking at women and men separately, we find virtually no statistically significant … does not seem to favor men more than women in terms of life satisfaction. …
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until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction to track such factors. The German PASS-ADIAB dataset combines … covariates, we find that life satisfaction of in-work benefit recipientsis negatively associated with job search, whereas the … life satisfaction. …
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Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical … between per capita GDP and life satisfaction over time which is positive for poorer countries, but flat (or negative) for …
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