Revista: | Revista de economia politica |
Base de datos: | CLASE |
Número de sistema: | 000280377 |
ISSN: | 0101-3157 |
Autores: | Corbi, Raphael Bottura1 Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino2 |
Instituciones: | 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Brasil 2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Departamento de Economia, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
Año: | 2006 |
Periodo: | Oct-Dic |
Volumen: | 26, p.518-536 |
Número: | 4 |
Paginación: | 518-536 |
País: | Brasil |
Idioma: | Portugués |
Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
Enfoque: | Analítico, socioeconómico |
Resumen en inglés | This paper investigates the role that economic variables play in the determination of happiness, using reported happiness as a proxy to individual well-being. We use microdata extracted from the World Values Survey for five countries, emphasizing the Brazilian case. Our findings suggest that there is a positive and significant correlation between happiness and income. Unemployment is also a large source of unhappiness. In most cases, happiness appears to be positively correlated to being married. Moreover, happiness is apparently U-shaped in age (minimizing at 50's) |
Disciplinas: | Demografía, Economía |
Palabras clave: | Sociología de la población, Condiciones económicas, Brasil, Felicidad, Nivel de vida, Bienestar social, Ingreso, Happiness, Empleo, Desarrollo social |
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