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| Title: | | Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidencee  |
| Authors: | | Bjørnskov, Christian Dreher, Axel Fischer, Justina A.V. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | KOF working papers // Konjunkturforschungsstelle, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich 192 |
| Abstract: | | A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest that the conclusions reached by previous studies are fairly sensitive to the specific measure of happiness used. In addition, the results indicate that the welfare effects of policies may differ across phases of a country's economic development. This bears important policy implications which we discuss in the concluding section of the paper. |
| Subjects: | | Happiness institutions policy implications |
| JEL: | | I31 H10 H40 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005626337 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | KOF Working Papers, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, ETH Zürich
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