capabilities and SWB (particularly, life evaluations), which varies across world regions. Capabilities can also be associated with …

the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested – and four negative affect variables – pain …

of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment …

decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … different dimensions of mortality, wages and schooling in triggering the transition. The dynamics of the model are consistent …

The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study … data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …

short-run positive effect.Our estimated index of subjective wellbeing generally does not feature any positive trend, which …