招聘セミナー“Is it possible to raise national happiness? (Dr. Alberto Prati 氏)”
開催日程
2024年11月12日(火) 16:30～18:00
場所
慶応義塾大学三田キャンパス 大学院校舎８階 産業研究所会議室（map）
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University College London（UCL）のDr. Alberto Prati氏を招聘し以下の内容のセミナーを開催します。
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■報告者：Dr. Alberto Prati氏
■報告タイトル： Is it possible to raise national happiness?
■著者: Alberto Prati and Claudia Senik
■要旨:
We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and "the worst possible life for you", is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation of the scale changes with the context in which respondents are placed. We propose a simple model of rescaling and reconstruct an index of latent happiness on the basis of retrospective reports included in unexploited archival data from the USA. We show that national well-being has substantially increased from the 1950s to the early 2000s, on par with GDP, health, education, and liberal democracy. We validate our new index on several datasets, and find that it captures important changes in personal life circumstances over and above nominal life satisfaction. Our model sheds light on several well-documented happiness puzzles, including why life satisfaction did not drop during the COVID-19 pandemic, why residents of Ukraine report the same life satisfaction today than before the war, and why people take life-changing decisions - like having kids - that seem to make them less happy.
※ 参加をご希望される場合は、こちらより事前にご登録お願いいたします。
https://forms.gle/CKwqBfNmomJXxHaE7 （11月10日(日)まで）
■報告者：Dr. Alberto Prati氏
■報告タイトル： Is it possible to raise national happiness?
■著者: Alberto Prati and Claudia Senik
■要旨:
We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and "the worst possible life for you", is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation of the scale changes with the context in which respondents are placed. We propose a simple model of rescaling and reconstruct an index of latent happiness on the basis of retrospective reports included in unexploited archival data from the USA. We show that national well-being has substantially increased from the 1950s to the early 2000s, on par with GDP, health, education, and liberal democracy. We validate our new index on several datasets, and find that it captures important changes in personal life circumstances over and above nominal life satisfaction. Our model sheds light on several well-documented happiness puzzles, including why life satisfaction did not drop during the COVID-19 pandemic, why residents of Ukraine report the same life satisfaction today than before the war, and why people take life-changing decisions - like having kids - that seem to make them less happy.
備考
■主催
慶應義塾大学 経済学部附属 経済研究所 パネルデータ設計・解析センター
慶應義塾大学 経済学部附属 経済研究所 パネルデータ設計・解析センター
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