Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Pugno, Maurizio - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2007
Most popular explanations of the happiness paradox cannot fully account for the lack of growth in U.S. reported well-being during the last thirty years (Blanchflower and Oswald (2004)). In this paper we test an alternative hypothesis, namely that the decline in U.S. social capital is responsible...