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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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the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from …Using micro-data on six surveys the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the …
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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …
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on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and …
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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 …. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we document large declines in overall life satisfaction and domain …
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We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...
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of international tourist arrivals on the subjective well-being – happiness and life satisfaction – of residents in … satisfaction) than its affective component (happiness) … results suggest that tourist arrivals reduce residents' life satisfaction. This negative relationship tends to be more …
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested – and four negative affect variables – pain …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...
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