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 …

-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay Happiness Index. It covers how gays perceive public opinion about them, how they … citizen, as well as the transmission mechanisms through which policies and institutions affect life satisfaction. We find that …

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. …

health predicts higher happiness by 1.72 point or 0.82 of a standard deviation, more than four times the happiness difference … of changing employment status from unemployed to employed. Studying life satisfaction yields similar results. Health … improvements predict substantial increases in individual happiness. …

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 …

entrepreneurial well-being, in the form of job satisfaction, is significantly higher for those living in semi-urban locations … into self-employment experience higher job satisfaction than otherwise comparable individuals living in materially deprived … neighbourhoods, although the latter experience greater levels of life satisfaction following the switch. …

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 …

satisfaction such that capitalism confers more life satisfaction on men than on women. We test empirically whether this concern is … for general life satisfaction. When looking at women and men separately, we find virtually no statistically significant … does not seem to favor men more than women in terms of life satisfaction. …