World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and …

This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive …

This paper presents new evidence linking trust and subjective well-being, based primarily on data from the Gallup World … surveys and the Gallup World Poll ask respondents to estimate the chances that a lost wallet would be returned to them if …

This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures … variables in explaining within-country and international differences in well-being. For most specifications tested, the combined … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …

In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … utility, and use them to evaluate alternative features and forms of government in large international samples. We find that … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per …

This paper reviews the extent and policy implications of linkages between demographic changes and international factor … reasons neither increased migration nor international transfers of savings is expected to offer much assistance in digesting … effects of demography on the factor content of international trade, as exemplified by offshore provision of back-office and …

This paper attempts to explain international and inter-personal differences in subjective well-being over the final … fifth of the twentieth century. The empirical work makes use of data from three waves of the World Values survey covering … use of large international samples of data combining individual and societal level variables, thus permitting the …

international convergence of technical progress. Several models of convergence, including a model in which convergence is affected …. The results show significant evidence of international convergence in the rates of growth of labour efficiency, and some … evidence that convergence is faster for countries that have been increasing their openness to international trade. A more …

life. International migration provides an excellent test of this hypothesis, since life circumstances and average …