Essays on schadenfreude: evidence from natural experiments
The object of this Thesis is Schadenfreude, or “the pleasure for the misfortunes of others”. I characterise some of the conditions that may trigger Schadenfreude and leverage three natural experiments, applying causal inference techniques on data from large social surveys. In Chapter 1, I find that,...
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Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2020
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