This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

cumulative disadvantage" and attempts to identify population members at high risk of social exclusion in EU countries using the … higher risk of social exclusion than the rest of the population. To a large extent, this risk is accounted by the higher than …

reported happiness levels. In analysing the determinants of happiness, we argue that it is important to control for dynamics … and initial conditions. The latter arguably measures an initial setpoint of happiness which the psychological literature …

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for …

affect well-being and ill-being. The implication of the findings in this paper for the happiness literature is that for …

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a …