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Becchetti, LeonardoPelloni, AlessandraTitolo
What are we learning from the life satisfaction literature?Periodico
Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze. Dipartimento del Tesoro. Working paperAnno:
2011 - Volume:
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44The recent availability of cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data on life satisfaction in a large number of countries gives us the opportunity to verify empirically (and not just to assume)
what matters for individuals and what economists and policymakers should take into account when trying to promote personal and societal wellbeing. The wide array of econometric findings available in this booming literature display evidence, generally robust to different cultural
backgrounds, on the effects of some important happiness drivers (income, unemployment, marital status) which can be co*nsidered “quasi stylized facts” of happiness. If economic policies,
for many obvious reasons, cannot maximize self declared life satisfaction as such, we are nonetheless learning a lot from these contributions. In particular, results on the relevance and the risk of crowding out of relational goods, on the revisited inflation/unemployment trade off
and, more in general, on the measurement of the shadow value of non market goods obtained
with life satisfaction estimates, are conveying relevant information about individual preferences and what is behind utility functions. Such findings suggest us to move beyond anthropological
reductionism toward behavioral complexity and to refocus target indicators of economic policies in order to minimize the distance between economic development and human wellbeing.
SICI: 1972-411X(2011)1:2<1:WAWLFT>2.0.ZU;2-M
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