understand this recent rise in NGO activism, we develop a theory of optimal regulation in which a regulated industry seeks to … undertake a project that may be harmful to society. On the one hand, public regulation is vulnerable to the influence of the …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to … including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the …

show that adolescents and young adults who report higher life satisfaction or positive affect grow up to earn significantly …

association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction … between a functional polymorphism on the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) and life satisfaction. We initially find that … individuals with the longer, transcriptionally more efficient variant of this genotype report greater life satisfaction (n=2 …

self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more … that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …, triggered by the opportunity to use the time in a way that yields higher levels of satisfaction than working …