While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions … embodying equal rights for gay people matter for the life satisfaction of gays, we combine these two issues to analyze how the … latter type of institutions relates to general life satisfaction. The question is how people in general are affected by laws …

A recurring theme in evaluations of Swedish residential youth care is that treatment is often unplanned. In this paper …

-employment among older people may be an effective way to improve their life satisfaction, to increase Sweden's labour supply and to …This paper compares life satisfaction among the elderly (61 years of age or older) who are self-employed, wage …-employed or out of the labour force in Sweden with the help of a unique survey. Sweden is interesting since the share of elderly …

life satisfaction that persist for over a decade and show no evidence of dissipating with time. The estimated treatment … effects on happiness and mental health are significantly smaller, suggesting that wealth has greater long-run effects on … evaluative measures of well-being than on affective ones. Follow-up analyses of domain-specific aspects of life satisfaction …

I study the link between taxes and youth self-employment. I make use of a Swedish reform, implemented in 2007-09, which … suddenly made the payroll tax and the self-employment tax vary by age. The results suggest that youth self-employment is …

This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin … satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …

European countries in the period 1993–2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy … economic freedom are generally related to satisfaction with democracy in a negative way, while reforms that increase economic …

discussion of what constitutes a “good life”. Phelps argues that true life satisfaction cannot be achieved through a purposeless … economic growth, but to life satisfaction as well. This essay discusses topics in entrepreneurship research linked to the book …

the satisfaction people express with their freedom of choice. Using a sample of 133 countries over the period 2008 … related to satisfaction with freedom above and below a threshold level. Freedom of assembly is more positive for satisfaction … institutions are complementary with culture, income and the political system in generating satisfaction with freedom. …