-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …

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 …

Component Analysis. Our analysis shows that BLI increases with GDP only for poor countries, extending the Easterlin Paradox to … the quality of life measurement; that good performances in BLI are not necessarily due to a high efficiency of the whole …

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international …

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 …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

satisfaction ; quality of life ; Easterlin Paradox ; adaptation …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

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 …. Consistent with our theoretical model, the results for high-mobility countries turn out to be ambiguous. -- happiness ; life …