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标题：The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
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作者：Paul Dolan ; Georgios Kavetsos ; Christian Krekel 等
期刊名称：CEP Discussion Paper
出版年度：2016
卷号：2016
语种：English
出版社：Centre for Economic Performance
摘要：We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom to the fourth income decile. But they do not last very long: the effects are gone within a year. These conclusions are based on a novel panel survey of 26,000 individuals who were interviewed during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013, i.e. before, during, and after the event. The results are robust to selection into the survey and to the number of medals won.
关键词：subjective wellbeing;life satisfaction;happiness;Olympic Games;natural experiment