Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World …, 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 …-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women …

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

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 that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder …

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …

-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …