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| Title: | | The French unhappiness puzzle: The cultural dimension of happiness  |
| Authors: | | Senik, Claudia |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6175 |
| Abstract: | | This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus psychological and cultural factors. The latter turns out to be of non-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80% of the country's unobserved idiosyncratic source of (un-)happiness. |
| Subjects: | | happiness subjective well-being international comparisons France immigration European Social Survey |
| JEL: | | I31 H52 O15 O52 Z10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201103063 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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