The Macroeconomics of Happiness

We show that macroeconomic movements have strong effects on the happiness of nations. First, we find that there are clear microeconomic patterns in the psychological well-being levels of a quarter of a million randomly sampled Europeans and Americans from the 1970s to the 1990s. Happiness equations...

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Volume:	85
Main Author:	Rafael Di Tella Robert J. MacCulloch Andrew J. Oswald
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	CAMBRIDGE MIT Press 01.11.2003 M I T PRESS MIT Press Journals
published in:	The review of economics and statistics Vol. 85; no. 4; pp. 809 - 827
Data of publication:	20031101
ISSN:	0034-6535 1530-9142 1530-9142
EISSN:	1530-9142
Discipline:	Economics Statistics
Subjects:	Happiness Economic fluctuations Wellbeing Standard error Macroeconomics Economic costs Coefficients Gross domestic product Unemployment Economic recessions Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods Growth United States SATISFACTION COMPARABILITY UTILITY UNEMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2003 CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS