Is happiness infectious?

The paper uses an appropriate survey from rural China to answer the question: Is happiness infectious, i.e. does the happiness of an individual depend positively on the happiness of their reference group? The evidence is consistent with this hypothesis, but the challenge is to solve the 'refle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Knight, J, Gunatilaka, R
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2009