of Happiness is an example of such a tool. The archive is tailored to meet the requirements of assembling research … findings on happiness; both distributional findings (how happy people are) and correlational findings (what things go together … with happiness). With its focus on 'findings' the system differs from data-archives that store 'investigations' and from …

performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …. Our findings suggest that their conclusions are qualitatively rather insensitive to the specific measure of ‘happiness …

performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association … measure of ‘happiness’ used, while the associations between institutions and subjective well-being differ among poor and rich …

This study is an investigation into relative overeducation and life satisfaction using British longitudinal data. The … between being overeducated and life satisfaction, and a key reason for this relates to comparisons (both with others, and the … notion. In addition, evidence is presented that income compensates somewhat for the loss of life satisfaction incurred by the …

British Household Panel Survey, it is demonstrated that happiness is largely (but not wholly) contemporaneous. This can help … reflected in self-reported life satisfaction scores. This contemporaneous finding also explains other results in the literature …

well-being’, ‘affect’, ‘life satisfaction’, and ‘happiness’. It describes their measurements and operationalizations in …Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co …

Previous happiness research has explicitly assumed that subjective well-being is U-shaped in age. This paper sheds new … life satisfaction reaches another local maximum around the age of 83, with a level identical to that of a 26-years old …

Values Survey, this study shows that living in a socially mobile society is conducive to individual life satisfaction …

life satisfaction. Differentiating between perceived and actual social mobility, we find that both exert rather independent …