politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …

that active volunteers report significantly higher life satisfaction, feelings of worthwhileness, social connectedness, and …

thresholds. Such regime changes are visible to the eye through the lens of subjective satisfaction measures. The case of … Transition countries is particularly impressive in this respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirrored changes in GDP …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

initial level, life satisfaction has not improved …

true for two measures of SWB that are separately analyzed, overall life satisfaction and satisfaction with finances. The …

satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to negative economic growth as compared to positive growth. We use Gallup …