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Helliwell, John F. - 2020

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in … government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

help to restore to economics the breadth of purpose and methods it had two centuries ago, when happiness was considered the …

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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly sampled geographic regions, using natural,...

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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2017

This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations, better and deeper social connections, and especially higher levels of trust are linked to higher...

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How Much is Social Capital Worth?

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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Trust and Well-being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

Our results reveal sufficiently strong linkages between trust and well-being to support much more study of how trust can be built and maintained, or repaired where it has been damaged. We therefore use data from the Canadian GSS17 to analyze personal and neighbourhood characteristics, including...

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Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. After a general review of past and...

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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find...

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Empathy and Emulation : Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P. - 2008

Departures from self-centred, consumption-oriented decision making are increasingly common in economic theory and are well motivated by a wide range of behavioural data from experiments, surveys, and econometric inference. A number of studies have shown large negative externalities in individual...

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