Mind the gap? Business cycles and subjective well-being

Matti Hovi and Jani-Petri Laamanen

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 17, 1206-1209

Abstract: We examine the relationship between output fluctuations and within-country variation in subjective well-being using country panels. We show that the deviation of output from trend, unlike trend growth, is positively associated with well-being. The explanatory power of the business cycle is found to be better than that of the level of output.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1145340

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