associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have … spawned increasing interest in SWB as an important concept in its own right. However, some social scientists continue to … question the usefulness of SWB metrics. We contribute to this literature in three ways. First, we introduce a biometric measure …

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 that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain … reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …

endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …

wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … happiness and life satisfaction in recent years even before the onset of pandemic. As in the past they continue to have lower … in happiness data regarding whether males are happier than females but find little variation by month in unhappiness data …

self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey questions to construct an index of … to take before conducting the SWB and SP surveys: (1) formulating a set of aspects of well-being that is theoretically …

Surveys, the paper studies the reported happiness and life-satisfaction scores of random samples of young men and women. " The …