In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of ‘more children, more happiness’ by exploiting …

show that the dismissed workers suffered significant welfare loss in terms of happiness. Our results are robust to various …

A large empirical literature has debated the U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship … in Europe and the United States. The happiness curve seems to be everywhere. …

lockdown regulations, while amid an economic crisis. We analyse the impact of both Covid-19 and the lockdown on happiness. We … use the Gross National Happiness Index to compare the determinants of happiness before and after the Covid-19 lockdown … regulations. Further, we estimate the likelihood of happiness levels in 2020, reaching the average levels in 2019 using two models …

This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of … the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and … states of happiness and estimate the duration in these states. In addition, as maximising happiness is a policy priority, we …

well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses the causal effect of mandatory lockdown on happiness in three very …, notwithstanding the characteristics of a country or the lockdown regulations, whether a lockdown negatively affects happiness …. Secondly, we compare the effect size of the lockdown on happiness between these countries. We make use of Difference …

The pursuit of happiness. What does that mean? Perhaps a more prominent question to ask is, 'how does one know whether …