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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the happiest of them all?

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  • Benno Torgler
  • Nemanja Antic
  • Uwe Dulleck

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This paper turns Snow-White?s magic mirror onto recent economics Nobel Prize winners, top economists and happiness researchers, and through the eyes of the ?man in the street? seeks to determine who the happiest academic is. The study not only provides a clear answer to this question but also unveils who is the ladies? man and who is the sweetheart of the aged. It also explores the extent to which information matters and whether individuals? self-reported happiness affects their perceptions about the happiness of these superstars in economics.

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Paper provided by Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) in its series CREMA Working Paper Series with number 2007-16.

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Date of creation: Sep 2007
Handle: RePEc:cra:wpaper:2007-16
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Keywords: happiness; subjective well-being; perceptions; superstars; economists;

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  • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
  • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
  • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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  1. Rosen, Sherwin, 1981. "The Economics of Superstars," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 71(5), pages 845-858, December.
  2. Frey, Bruno S, et al, 1984. "Consensus and Dissension among Economists: An Empirical Inquiry," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 74(5), pages 986-994, December.
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Cited by:

  1. Bakkenbüll, Linn-Brit, 2015. "Does attractiveness win? On the gender-specific impact of attractiveness on athletic performance in tennis," Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics 01/2016, University of Münster, Institute for Organisational Economics.
  2. Bruno S. Frey & Reiner Eichenberger & René L. Frey, 2009. "Editorial Ruminations: Publishing Kyklos," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 62(2), pages 151-160, 04.

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