Happiness is a Warm Gun
Date
2008
Authors
Bottan, Nicolas Luis
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Pérez Truglia, Ricardo Nicolás
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Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
Abstract
Based on evolutionary reasons, we propose that current happiness may
depend negatively on past happiness. Our theoretical model shows how
addiction may be thought as an optimum mechanism to make mankind
maximize fitness. We run happiness regressions using panel data from the
British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to test the different hypotheses. The
results are twofold: originally happiness may have been autoregressive, but
under modern circumstances mankind might have found the key to perpetuate
life satisfaction.
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Fil: Bottan, Nicolas Luis. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.
Keywords
Happiness -- Mathematical models