An emerging literature documents the many challenges faced by college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is … known, however, about how students responded to the adversity. Focusing on two large Canadian universities, we provide some … of the first evidence on the coping strategies students reported and the relationships between their endorsement of …

expected full-time work status on depressive symptoms; regressions are estimated separately for those working fulltime at age … 62 and those not working fulltime. We found significant effects on depression at age 62 both for full-time workers who … expected not to be working full-time, and for participants not working full-time who expected to be doing so. These results …

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics …

Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a … they would respond (or would have responded) to a survey question about their happiness after the same event. The …

find some time-series variation in insecurity but no clear trends. We find that expectations and realizations of health …

additional evidence from an array of attitudinal questions that were worded slightly differently than standard happiness or life … satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country … estimates for advanced countries gives a similar minimum of 47.2. The happiness curve is everywhere …

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 …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …