Life Satisfaction and Preferences over Economic Growth and Institutional Quality.
This paper demonstrates that institutional factors have differential impacts on subjective well-being of individuals in rich versus poor countries. A lower level of corruption, a more democratic government and better civil rights increase the well-being of individuals in rich countries, whereas an i...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 100 - 122 |
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