Capitale sociale e benessere soggettivo
Letture essenziali
Becchetti, L., Pelloni, A., Rossetti, F. (2008). Relational Goods, Sociability, and Happiness. Kyklos 61 (3), 343-363
This paper empirically investigates the impact of relational goods on individual life satisfaction...
Bartolini, S., Bilancini, E., Pugno, M. (2008). Did the Decline in Social Capital Decrease American Happiness? A Relational Explanation of the Happiness Paradox. University of Siena Dept of Economics working paper 513
Most popular explanations of the happiness paradox cannot fully account for the lack of growth in U...
Sabatini, F. (2011). Can a click buy a little happiness? The impact of business-to-consumer e-commerce on subjective well-being. MPRA Paper 32393
This paper presents the first empirical investigation into the effect of e-shopping on subjective...
Letture importanti
Bjørnskov, C.(2003). The Happy Few. Cross-Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life Satisfaction
I examine why the populations of certain countries are so much more satisfied with their lives than...
Bruni, L. (2012). The Wound and the Blessing: Economics, Relationships, and Happiness. New York: New City Press
The crisis that market societies are undergoing is essentially a crisis of relationships. It...
Sabatini, F., Sarracino, F. (2014). Online networks and subjective well-being. MPRA Paper 56436.
Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results...
Archivio della reading list
"On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics: Reinterpreting Tibor Scitovsky" by Maurizio Pugno
About the book Economic growth has extraordinarily increased the availability of market goods...
Alesina, A., Giuliano, P. (2014). Family ties. In S. Durlauf and P. Aghion (Eds). Handbook of Economic Growth. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and...
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era. Sapienza University of Rome, mimeo
The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world...
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2013). Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era. Quality & Quantity, Doi:10.1007/s11135-013-9863-z
The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world...
Antoci, A., Sacco, P. L., Vanin, P. (2007). Social capital accumulation and the evolution of social participation. The Journal of Socio-Economics 36, 128–143
We study the co-evolution of social participation and social capital accumulation, taking the view...
Aslam, A., Corrado, L. (2007). No Man is an Island, the Inter-personal Determinants of Regional Well-Being in Europe. Cambridge Working Papers in Economics n. 0717
There is a strong need to complement the analysis of social well-being at the European regional...
Bartolini, S., Bilancini, E. (2011). Social Participation and Hours Worked. Department of Economics University of Siena Working Paper No. 620
We investigate the relationship between social participation and the hours worked in the market....
Bartolini, S., Sarracino, F. (2011). Happy for How Long? How Social Capital and GDP relate to Happiness over Time. Department of Economics University of Siena No. 621
What does predict the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We answer this question...
Bjørnskov, C. (2008). Social Capital and Happiness in the United States. Applied Research in Quality of Life 3 (8), 43-62
This paper explores the association between social capital and average happiness in the United...
Bjørnskov, C. (2010). How Comparable are the Gallup World Poll Life Satisfaction Data? Journal of Happiness Studies 11 (1), 41-60
This paper explores the degree to which the new data on life satisfaction from the Gallup World...
Bruni, L., Comim, F., Pugno, M. (2008). Capabilities and Happiness. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human...
Bruni, L., Stanca, L. (2006). Income Aspirations, Television and Happiness: Evidence from the World Values Survey. Kyklos, 59 (2), 209-225
This paper investigates the role of television in producing higher material aspirations, by...
Bruni, L., Stanca, L. (2008). Watching alone: Relational goods, television and happiness. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65 (3-4), 506-528
This paper investigates the role of relational goods for subjective well-being. Using a large...
Castronova E., Wagner G. G. (2011). Virtual Life Satisfaction. Kyklos 64 (3), 313-328
We study life satisfaction data from the 2005 World Values Survey and a 2009 survey of users of the...
Clark, A. E. (2011). Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by...