of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries’ happiness; Britain and … holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. Using data on 131 countries, the …

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered … happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …

Comprehensive and international comparable leading indicators across countries and continents are rare. In this paper …, we use a free and instantaneous available source of leading indicators, the ifo World Economic Survey (WES), to forecast … growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 44 countries and three country aggregates separately. We come up with three major …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for … distinct ‘recipes’, which are primarily based on the values of different population sub-sets. These values are: altruistic …

study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …