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Tasting freedom
— happiness, religion and economic transition | | Author(s) | Orsolya Lelkes |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2002 |
| Pages | 30 pp (CASEpaper 59) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Well being ; Emotions ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Religion ; Social economics ; Social surveys ; Hungary. |
| Annotation | Survey evidence suggests that the level of individual self-reported happiness in Central and Eastern Europe is much below that of Western Europe. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness, and finds that religious involvement contributes positively to individuals' self-reported well-being. Controlling for respondents' personal characteristics, money is a less important source of happiness for the religious. The impact of economic transition has varied greatly across different groups: while the main winners from increasing economic freedom were the entrepreneurs, the religious were little affected by the changes. This implies that greater ideological freedom, measured by a greater social role of churches, may not influence happiness per se. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021003206 B |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: DL: EX: TR: W4: 3F: 7AG |
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