It could in theory, but OWID’s summary of the evidence mostly persuades me otherwise. Again I’m mostly thinking about how the Easterlin paradox would explain this OWID chart:
I’m guessing Easterlin et al would probably counter that OWID didn’t look at a long-enough timeframe (a decade is too short), and I can’t immediately see what the timeframe is in this chart, so there’s that.
It could in theory, but OWID’s summary of the evidence mostly persuades me otherwise. Again I’m mostly thinking about how the Easterlin paradox would explain this OWID chart:
I’m guessing Easterlin et al would probably counter that OWID didn’t look at a long-enough timeframe (a decade is too short), and I can’t immediately see what the timeframe is in this chart, so there’s that.