This paper explores the relationship between social capital and happiness both in Europe as a whole, as well as in its … – influences individual happiness across European countries and regions. The concept of social capital is further enriched by … for happiness across the three dimensions considered. Second, the main drivers of the effects of social capital on …

share the same individual determinants of happiness as people in the West (despite some significant cross-country variation … macroeconomic side, GDP growth is still a source of increasing well-being, but the happiness bonus associated with it is becoming … smaller. The different levels of individual happiness in CEE are therefore mostly determined by institutional factors such as …

of well-being and economic factors. More precisely, it tries to evaluate the decrease in happiness and life satisfaction … unemployment, inflation or income inequality. Such aggregate factors could impact individual happiness per se because they are … proposes an evaluation of the welfare cost of unemployment and inflation (in terms of happiness and life satisfaction), in each …