This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of … the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and … states of happiness and estimate the duration in these states. In addition, as maximising happiness is a policy priority, we …

well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses the causal effect of mandatory lockdown on happiness in three very …, notwithstanding the characteristics of a country or the lockdown regulations, whether a lockdown negatively affects happiness …. Secondly, we compare the effect size of the lockdown on happiness between these countries. We make use of Difference …

lockdown regulations, while amid an economic crisis. We analyse the impact of both Covid-19 and the lockdown on happiness. We … use the Gross National Happiness Index to compare the determinants of happiness before and after the Covid-19 lockdown … regulations. Further, we estimate the likelihood of happiness levels in 2020, reaching the average levels in 2019 using two models …

While quarantine has become a widely used control measure during the outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease … depression but an increase in happiness. Such effects are stronger in the upper distribution of depression and the median of … happiness. We also discern that individuals with severe depressive symptoms (or lower levels of happiness) are more susceptible …

National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. Our aim is to describe … consumer satisfaction, and big data, such as Google Trends. Results indicate that sentiment analysis of Tweets an provide …

The pursuit of happiness. What does that mean? Perhaps a more prominent question to ask is, 'how does one know whether …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong …