this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely …-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are particularly optimistic … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is …

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

asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction. Using individual-level SWB data allows us to control for several … having a significant positive effect on self-reported life-satisfaction. Implications for researchers and policymakers are …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

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

' response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

and negative effects for middle household income families. We find similar negative effects on life satisfaction for both … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …

% of the country's unobserved idiosyncratic source of (un-)happiness. …This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent … affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to …