happiness research in economics. A dataset of 154 Benedictine nuns is analyzed. The main objective is to identify the most … important determinants of happiness of Benedictines and to empirically evaluate the hypothesis that they have very high …

effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …

self-reported happiness. Using panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), we begin by … estimating ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions of happiness on a measure of MSA-level segregation, controlling for a rich … associated with a reduction in happiness among blacks. To deal more appropriately with the potential endogeneity of location …

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …

We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of …