This study uses 1971-2013 panel data to explore the implications of growth, wealth disparities and energy consumption …

Across many disciplines, the fixed effects estimator of linear panel data models is the default method to estimate … panel. We consider several alternatives to the fixed effects estimator with T > 2 when relevant unit-specific heterogeneity … results from multiple linear panel data estimators in applied research. …

European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical … components of per capita GDP as regressors. When testing variants of the paradox that apply to groups of countries, we find a … Poland. As the Western and Northern European countries have a high per capita GDP as compared to that of Southern and Eastern …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated. …

The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004 …

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 …