The bigger the better? Evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world

By Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer. 2007

280 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology

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In Accounting

1. Alois Stutzer
2. Bruno S. Frey
3. Friedrich Schneider
4. Roberto Dell'Anno

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Alois Stutzer
2. Bruno S. Frey
3. Jan Ott
4. Ernst Fehr
5. Olga Lorenz
6. Armin Falk
7. Urs Fischbacher
8. Benno Torgler

In Social Psychology

1. Bruno S. Frey
2. Alois Stutzer
3. Alexander Pacek
4. Benjamin Radcliff
5. Richard A. Easterlin
6. Jan Ott
7. Andrew J. Oswald
8. Benno Torgler

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Political Leaders' Profession and Education on Reforms (2009, unknown): “6 See, for example, Blendon et al. (1997) or Caplan (2002), who show that economists have significantly different assessments and expectations about the economy than the wider public.”
• Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “Hence, I choose the identical comprehensive set of control variables as Bjørnskov et al. (2007), who examined”
• Happiness and public choice (2010, background): “The latter models assume that left- and right-wing voters are differently affected by economic performance in a systematic way.”
• Welfare Policy and Subjective Well-Being Across Nations: An Individual-Level Assessment (2008, background): “ Bjornskov et al. (2005) detailed analysis on the impact of the size of government argues that deleterious consequences of life-satisfaction are a major consequence.”
• Good Governance and Happiness in Nations: Technical Quality Precedes Democracy and Quality Beats Size (2010, background): “See for instance the contributions by NG and Ho (2006)and Bjornskov et al. (2007) .”
• Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society (2006, unknown): “Indeed, a positive impact on happiness is reported in DiTella et al. (2003). The level of public debt to GDP, however, can proxy for bad governance of politicians or an ongoing recession which often gives reason to later increase tax rates and to cut government spending on welfare, investments, infr”