the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from …, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on … includes self-reported happiness and mental well-being measures, with contemporaneous local air quality and weather information …

longitudinal evidence that a drop in life satisfaction tends to precede the use of illegal/street drugs. We also find that the … current levels of life satisfaction. This provides empirical support for the utility misprediction model. Further, we find … that the decrease in life satisfaction following the consumption of illegal/street drugs persists 6 months to a year after …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well …

This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our … heterogeneous effect of victimisation along the whole distribution of well-being. Using fixed effects panel estimation, we find that …

of international tourist arrivals on the subjective well-being – happiness and life satisfaction – of residents in … satisfaction) than its affective component (happiness). … results suggest that tourist arrivals reduce residents' life satisfaction. This negative relationship tends to be more …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …