We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid …' 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 …

-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …

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 …

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 …

satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …

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