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Helliwell, John F. - 2020

channels (including peace and conflict, trust, and inequality) whereby quality of government and happiness are linked. We …This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in …

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Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. After a general review of past and...

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Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development

Helliwell, John F. - 2008

This paper argues that measures of life satisfaction, now being collected annually by the Gallup World Poll in more than 130 countries, permit a much broader view of the quality and consequences of development than other common measures. While these data show the importance of conventionally...

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New measures of the costs of unemployment : Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...

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