happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …

sectional relation of happiness to GDP per capita. The point-of-time comparison leads to the expectation that the same absolute … increase in GDP per capita will have a bigger impact on SWB in a poorer than a richer country. In fact there is no significant … rate of growth in GDP per capita significantly positively associated with a greater improvement in SWB. In the developing …

all, on government spending, which, in turn, has an insignificant impact on GDP. The paper discusses some policy …

suggest "intermediate" regimes decrease long run GDP per capita by about 20 percent. These effects are mainly driven by … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …