In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly
review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the …

Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the subjective wellbeing of
their citizens and to use it for policy evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a …

The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of
microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the German
Democratic Republic's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male …

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be
reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness …

Purpose Intangible legacy encapsulates the essence of Olympism and its manifestation, the
Olympic Games. Despite significant interest in the capacity of the Olympics to produce …

According to the happiness-income paradox, economic growth within a country does not
necessarily lead to an increase in well-being. However, previous literature also showed that …

We contribute to the happiness literature by analyzing the causal relationship between
sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

The current study aimed to examine the relationships among residents' impact perception of
2019 Rugby World Cup (ie economic impact, cultural interests and new opportunity …

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
pandemic. The implications for industries related to the Olympics—tourism, hotels and …