During the global response to COVID-19, the analogy of fighting a war was often used. In 2022, the world faced a … different war altogether, an unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since 2020 the world has faced these unprecedented shocks …. Although we realise these events' health and economic effects, more can be known about the happiness effects on the people in a …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical …

associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … (approximately one-half of a standard deviation) is associated with 0.006 and 0.007 points reduction in life satisfaction on a four … (approximately two standard deviations) is associated with 0.009 and 0.021 points reduction in life satisfaction for White men and …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children … and receiving in-kind transfers from children. The heterogeneity analysis also shows that the effect of children on …

' well-being across all scenarios, such as: when observing the raw data or accounting for reverse causality and omitted …

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 …