' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … 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 …

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 …

-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women … endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … 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 …

lower life satisfaction and more pessimism about the future at age 50. Taken together, these results suggest social …

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

In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per … satisfaction. We test for differences in the relative importance of different aspects of good government, and find a hierarchy of …