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income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed … in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …
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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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significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has …
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...
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health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … geringerem Maße für Indikatoren des Wohlbefindens in bestimmten Lebensbereichen, wie die Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit und mit der … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …
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health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …
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life satisfaction almost twice as large as those who do not report any income loss. …We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction … and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older Singaporeans …
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