The Macroeconomics of Happiness

By R. Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch, Andrew J. Oswald. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003

1,759 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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In Accounting

1. Nattavudh Powdthavee
2. Andrew E. Clark
3. P. Frijters
4. David G. Blanchflower
5. Bruno S. Frey
6. Alois Stutzer
7. Claudia Senik
8. Carol Graham

In General Health Professions

1. Andrew E. Clark
2. Nattavudh Powdthavee
3. Claudia Senik
4. Michael A. Shields
5. Alois Stutzer
6. P. Frijters
7. Bruno S. Frey
8. Carol Graham

In Social Psychology

1. Andrew E. Clark
2. Nattavudh Powdthavee
3. Claudia Senik
4. P. Frijters
5. Richard A. Easterlin
6. Michael A. Shields
7. Andrew J. Oswald
8. John Knight

Citations in the corpus

• Well-being and unemployment in Russia in the 1990s: Can society's suffering be individuals' solace? (2006, positive): “Di Tella et al (2001) and Di Tella et al (2003) perform similar calculations to estimate the well-being cost of recessions.”
• Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe (2010, result): “The rich compare less and are more happy than average when they do, which latter is consistent with relative income theory.”
• Children’s Subjective Well-Being in Rich Countries (2013, background): “, 2010) and also to inflation (Frey and Stutzer, 2003; di Tella et al., 2003). Moreover, a number of studies suggest that it is the relative position occupied in the society rather than the level of income per se that counts (Layard, 2005). Empirical evidence confirms that on average high income ine”
• Memories of High Inflation (2012, result): “In line with this, it has consistently been found that inflation affects self-reported well-being of economic agents (Alesina et al. 2004, Di Tella et al. 2003, Wolfers 2003).”
• Inequality and Happiness: Are Americans and Europeans Different? (2004, positive): “Di Tella, MacCulloch and Oswald (1997) show that the country-level “micro happiness” regressions display a very similar structure across 12 OECD countries.”
• When passion fades: disentangling the temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial passion for founding (2016, background): “Macroeconomic conditions have indeed repeatedly been shown to negatively affect individuals’ positive emotions (e.g., Di Tella et al., 2003).”