Well-being through the lens of the internet.

We build models to estimate well-being in the United States based on changes in the volume of internet searches for different words, obtained from the Google Trends website. The estimated well-being series are weighted combinations of word groups that are endogenously identified to fit the weekly su...

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Main Authors: Yann Algan, Fabrice Murtin, Elizabeth Beasley, Kazuhito Higa, Claudia Senik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209562