Happiness and Economic Performance

Andrew Oswald

Working Papers from Centre for Economic Performance & Institute of Economics

Abstract: If a nation's economic performance improves, how much extra happiness does that buy its citizens? Most public debate assume -without real evidence- that the answer is a lot. This paper examines the question by using information on the well-being in Western countries.

Keywords: SOCIAL; WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 1997
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