Do Large Governments Decrease Happiness?
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Keywords
Happiness; Life Satisfaction; Government Size; Fiscal Deficits; Public Debt; Europe;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-2014-03-22 (European Economics)
- NEP-HAP-2014-03-22 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-PBE-2014-03-22 (Public Economics)
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