nep-hap 2024-09-23 papers

on Economics of Happiness

Issue of 2024‒09‒23
one paper chosen by
Viviana Di Giovinazzo, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

This paper replicates, evaluates and updates the papers that estimate the long run impact of experiencing war on life satisfaction using the Life in Transition Survey. We show that the conflicting conclusions of 5 published studies can be replicated, but also that these conclusions are very sensitive to specification choices the authors made. Overall, we find little evidence supporting a causal long-term effect of war experience on life satisfaction. By Jemesa Landers; Tom Coupé; Andrea Menclova

This paper replicates, evaluates and updates the papers that estimate the long run impact of experiencing war on life satisfaction using the Life in Transition Survey. We show that the conflicting conclusions of 5 published studies can be replicated, but also that these conclusions are very sensitive to specification choices the authors made. Overall, we find little evidence supporting a causal long-term effect of war experience on life satisfaction.

By:	Jemesa Landers; Tom Coupé (University of Canterbury); Andrea Menclova (University of Canterbury)
Keywords:	War; Life Satisfaction; Replications; Metaverse; Specification Curve
JEL:	I31 D74 C52 C18
Date:	2024–08–01
URL:	https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cbt:econwp:24/12

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