We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … vary in religiosity between secular and ultra–orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …

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 …

social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …

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 …

We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as … the effects of belonging to an organized religion from the effect of holding religious beliefs, we find that the former …

based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …