In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

cultural movement grounded on evidence from quality-of-life studies. The movement proposes a new culture leading towards a …. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …

satisfaction gap between post-socialist and advanced countries and the role of political institutions in explaining this gap. My … satisfaction differentials between transition and non-transition economies. In this paper, I specifically examine the life … results imply that both macroeconomic factors and the rule of law explain the overall life satisfaction differential between …

income generally has a statistically significant effect. We find a significant effect of social capital on life satisfaction …

The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person's happiness. Extending previous … studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person's happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

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 …

Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to … psychological theories, and find that past and present happiness predicts compliance during lockdown. The relationship is stronger … for those with higher levels of happiness. A negative mood, or loss in happiness, predicts lower compliance. We explore …