Happiness, Markets, and Democracy: Latin America in Comparative Perspective

By Carol Graham, Stefano Pettinato. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Are there Geographical Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa? (2007, result): “The interpretation is consistent to Graham and Pettinato’s (2001) findings of lower life satisfaction among the self-employed and the retired in Latin America and Russia.”
What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research? (2001, background): “For Latin America and Russia, one study (Graham and Pettinato 2001b) indeed identified a mutual dependence of pro-democracy and pro-market attitudes with wellbeing: both raise happiness, but happier people are also more likely to have prodemocratic and pro-market attitudes.”
Are Women Happier than Men? Evidence from the Gallup World Poll (2015, background): “The psychology literature is generally in agreement with the economics of happiness literature that women report being happier than men, but they also conclude that women are more likely to have anxiety or be depressed (Nolen-Hoeksema and Rusting 1999). Stone et al. (2010) found that age profiles fo”
Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2019, background): “Happiness, markets and democracy: Latin America in comparative perspective.”
The Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preferences: International Survey Evidence (2001, background): “30 Similarly, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato find that Latin American men are more likely to have pro-market attitudes (Graham and Pettinato 2001), and to agree with the proposition that trade is very important to their countrys prosperity (Graham and Pettinato forthcoming).”
Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society (2006, unknown): “As noted above, economic instability is arguably associated with lower life satisfaction as it negatively affects people’s expectations about their future position (Graham and Pettinato, 2001).”