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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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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

help to restore to economics the breadth of purpose and methods it had two centuries ago, when happiness was considered the …

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Trust and Well-being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

Our results reveal sufficiently strong linkages between trust and well-being to support much more study of how trust can be built and maintained, or repaired where it has been damaged. We therefore use data from the Canadian GSS17 to analyze personal and neighbourhood characteristics, including...

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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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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find...

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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

Helliwell, John F. - 2004

This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim's (1897) findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being (Helliwell 2003). The results show that more social...

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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2017

This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations, better and deeper social connections, and especially higher levels of trust are linked to higher...

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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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Well-being Analysis Favours a Virus-Elimination Strategy for COVID-19

Helliwell, John F.; Norton, Max B.; Wang, Shun; Aknin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A well-being approach requires looking beyond COVID-19 deaths to compare the performance of elimination versus mitigation strategies as measured by other important supports for well-being. What do the data show? Our comparison based on 2020 data shows a virus elimination strategy to be more...

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