{"id":9011,"date":"2025-12-15T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:28:53","slug":"democracy-does-cause-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/?p=9011","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Does Cause Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wonderplugin-pdf-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/wp-content\/plugins\/wonderplugin-pdf-embed\/pdfjslight\/web\/viewer.html?v=2&file=https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/works\/works2025\/11.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border:0;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing on survey data from over 110 countries and leveraging variation across cohorts and  survey waves, we demonstrate that exposure to democracy is positively associated with individual  well-being. Building on Acemoglu et al. (2019), who establish the causal effect of democracy on  economic growth, we redirect attention from national economic outcomes to the individual level,  analyzing how democratic institutions shape personal welfare. Our results show that democracy  increases income, improves health outcomes, strengthens perceptions of freedom, and enhances  both life satisfaction and subjective happiness. These effects prove robust across alternative model  specifications, clustering techniques, estimation strategies, and subsamples. Temporal dynamics  are consistent with our interpretation, as impressionable years take a crucial role. 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