Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe" (Dey Street Books, 2022)
New Books in Economics
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The Secret of Happiness From You
Happiness is the happiness research really goes to your point of all these cool things economists can do. I saw it reading a whole bunch of happiness papers, and a lot of them i found fairly underwhelming. Evena in a supposedly evidence based happiness research, i think has been a based on flimsy evidence. And they did thi amazing project were they a pinged people on their phone, and they asked them three questions, what are you doing, who are you with? And rate your happiness from zero to 100. They built a data set of more than 60 thousand people and three million more than three million happiness points. It's just extremely compelling studies that i think we're fairly
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