The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study … data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …

-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …

comparisons in determining happiness. -- Happiness ; subjective well-being ; Easterlin Paradox ; life satisfaction ; economic …

, the sequence of improvements in various aspects of QoL is not always the same from one part of the world to another. And … sometimes, as in the case of happiness and life satisfaction, QoL indicators remain unchanged despite a doubling or more of real …

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index … this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is …