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

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know … importance; they guarantee high productivity, quality output, and individual happiness. Employees demand higher social awareness …

Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly … believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage …. There are two main reasons for this. First, we lack detailed data on health care utilization and health outcomes, and second …

on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform implies that public sector workers born on … public sector workers born in 1949 and 1950, we find strong and persistent effects on job satisfaction that are sizable … compared to income effects on well-being. The drop in satisfaction is strongly affected by social comparisons with colleagues …

sometimes, as in the case of happiness and life satisfaction, QoL indicators remain unchanged despite a doubling or more of real …To what extent are improvements in quality of life (material living levels, health, education, political and civil … rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International comparisons of quality of life (QoL …

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 …, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness …