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 …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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 …

happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well … have some of the lowest levels of job satisfaction in the world. Moreover, among the sub-sample of English-speaking nations …According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and …

contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of competition does neither increase efficiency …

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

The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do not. Treated subjects have 12% greater … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real-world …