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The University of Southampton
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute

Happiness, adaptation and social comparisons Seminar

Date:
24 February 2012
Venue:
Building 58 Room 1023

For more information regarding this seminar, please email Jane Revell at j.revell@southampton.ac.uk .

Event details

Applications & policy seminar

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward.

Speaker information

Andrew Clark , Paris School of Economics. Research Interests: applied microeconomics

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