The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom to th...
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| Volume: | 858 |
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| Main Author: |
Dolan, Paul
Kavetsos, Georgios Krekel, Christian Mavridis, Dimitris Metcalfe, Robert M Senik-Leygonie, Claudia Szymanski, Stefan Ziebarth, Nicolas |
| Format: | Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Place of publication: |
Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) 2016 |
| published in: | SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research Vol. 858 |
| Data of publication: | 2016 |
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| Database: | EconStor Database information Databases - DBIS |