national distribution of happiness. Thus the resilience-increasing feature of social trust reduces well-being inequality by … damaging to those living in trustworthy environments. These results suggest a fresh set of links between trust and inequality …

countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct …, causal impact on happiness. In contrast to traditional economic thought--which places self-interest as the guiding principle …

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 …

happiness differences are related to differences in inequality. A major concern, however, is spurious correlation due to the … comprehensive measure of inequality that subsumes the many and various component forms of inequality in particular domains. The … dispersion, (ii) that it is stronger in the subset of individuals who care most about inequality, and (iii) that it extends to …