Happiness and Foreign Aid

摘要

One of the most interesting developments in economics in recent years has been the growth of research on happiness. In separate studies, happiness has been linked to income, inflation, inequality, unemployment, self-employment, voluntary work, marriage, and even watching television (see Frey, Happiness: A Revolution in Economics, 2008 for a useful survey). Other studies on happiness have concentrated on the role of political decisions and institutions. For example, Dorn et al.