individuals' self-determined 'pursuit' of happiness. We suggest to substantiate what it means to 'pursue' happiness, in particular … pursuit of happiness has interesting practical policy implications. …

This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase … happiness in Eastern Europe. In addition, rural dwellers and church goers experience greater life-satisfaction. Aggregate … unemployment can explain more of the crosscountry variation in happiness than income per capita. …

distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …

autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …

) data set to estimate the causal impact of volunteering on happiness. We take into account personality traits that could … jointly determine volunteering behaviour and happiness. We find that the causal impact of volunteering on happiness is …