Happy lottery winners and lottery-ticket bias

Happy lottery winners and lottery-ticket bias

The world spends a remarkable $250 billion a year on lottery tickets. Yet, perplexingly, it has proved difficult for social scientists to show that lottery windfalls actually make people happier. This is the famous and still unresolved paradox due initially to Brickman and colleagues. Here we descri...

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Main Authors: KIM, Seonghoon, OSWALD, Andrew J.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
Subjects:
happiness
income
well-being
GHQ
mental-health
lottery
Singapore
lottery ticket bias
Behavioral Economics
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2438
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3437/viewcontent/Happy_Lottery_Winners_and_LT_Bias_pvoa.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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