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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality

Goff, Leonard - 2016

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …

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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction Among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly sampled geographic regions, using natural,...

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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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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F.; Aknin, Lara B.; Shiplett, Hugh; … - 2021

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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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

Helliwell, John F.; Gyarmati, David; Joyce, Craig; … - 2021

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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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F.; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher; … - 2021

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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How Much is Social Capital Worth?

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

day-of-week effect for life evaluations, represented here by the Cantril Ladder, but significantly more happiness … social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2% …

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Understanding and Improving the Social Context of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2012

The paper first attempts to demonstrate the fundamental importance of the social context. The related evidence is drawn from recent theoretical and empirical advances in the study of subjective well-being. Treating people's self-assessments of the quality of their lives as valid measures of...

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Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real and On-Line Friends

Helliwell, John F. - 2013

A recent large Canadian survey permits us to compare real-time and on-line social networks as sources of subjective well-being. The sample of 5,000 is drawn randomly from an on-line pool of respondents, a group well placed to have and value on-line friendships. We find three key results. First,...

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