Carattini, Stefano and Roesti, Matthias (2025) Trust, happiness, and pro-social behavior. Review of Economics and Statistics. ISSN 0034-6535
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This paper combines several large-scale surveys and empirical strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the level of trust maximizing subjective well-being tends to be above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked to more cooperative and pro-social behaviors, including the private provision of global public goods such as climate change mitigation. Consistent with “warm glow” theories of pro-social behavior, our results indicate that individuals may enjoy being more cooperative than what would lead them to maximize income, which can be reflected in higher levels of subjective well-being.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2023 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2025 12:57 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2025 12:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128320 |
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