%0 Report
        %A Oswald, Andrew J.
%A Proto, Eugenio
%A Sgroi, Daniel
        %T Happiness and Productivity
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4645
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4645
        %X The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do not. Treated subjects have 12% greater productivity in a paid piece-rate Niederle-Vesterlund task. They alter output but not the per-piece quality of their work. To check the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real-world unhappiness shocks – bereavement and family illness – are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from (random-assignment) Experiment 1.
        %K labor productivity
%K emotions
%K well-being
%K happiness
%K positive affect
%K experimental economics