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The influence of macroeconomic conditions and institutional quality on national levels of life satisfaction

Walsh, Brendan M. - 2012

pronounced. The adverse effect of higher unemployment on life satisfaction is partially offset by the positive impact of lower …Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance … between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in national levels of life satisfaction can largely be accounted by a small …

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Mitigating life challenges to subjective well-being through civic engagement : insights from a global perspective

Wu, Fengyu; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2024

evaluations. Furthermore, the negative association between unemployment and overall life evaluations is alleviated only by Putnam …

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...

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Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - In: Journal of public economics 177 (2019), pp. 1-14

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Mind the gap? : business cycles and subjective well-being

Hovi, Matti; Laamanen, Jani-Petri - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 16/18, pp. 1206-1209

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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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