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Rafael Di Tella
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 167
Citations - 16006
Rafael Di Tella is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corruption & Happiness. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 166 publications receiving 15049 citations. Previous affiliations of Rafael Di Tella include University of Oxford & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness
TL;DR: Di Tella et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that the costs of inflation in terms of unemployment can be measured by the relative size of the weights attached to these variables in social well-being.
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Rents, Competition, and Corruption
Alberto Ades,Rafael Di Tella +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between natural rents and corruption and found that natural rents, as in the case of oil, and rents induced by lack of product market competition foster corruption.
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The macroeconomics of happiness
TL;DR: The authors showed that macroeconomic movements have strong effects on the happiness of nations and that recessions create psychic losses that extend beyond the fall in GDP and rise in the number of people unemployed.
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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?
TL;DR: The authors found that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after controlling for individual income, a large set of personal characteristics and year and country (or, in the case of the US, state) dummies.
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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?
Alberto Alesina,Alberto Alesina,Alberto Alesina,Rafael Di Tella,Rafael Di Tella,Robert MacCulloch +5 more
TL;DR: The authors found that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the US, and that inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists.