I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million … unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness; sadness; strain, depression and bad nerves; phobias and panic; being … the world. Responses to all these unhappiness questions show a, ceteris paribus, inverted U-shape in age, with controls …

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 …

Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and …We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long-run (five year average) a one …

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

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 …

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in … with greater life satisfaction at all ages, but especially so at ages 60 and above, in some samples deepening the U …-shape in age by increasing the size of the life satisfaction gains following the mid-life low …

wellbeing including life satisfaction and happiness, several macro variables and various measures of trust. Union members are … union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the …