The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average …

to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on balance, data quality issues favor consumption in the case of single …

In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per … preferences that depends on the level of development. The ability of governments to provide a trustworthy environment, and to …

This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures … picture than either measure on its own. Second, we find strong evidence for the importance of both income and social context …

ordinal measure of dispersion. Moreover, the correlation is stronger for individuals who profess to care most about inequality …

fifth of the twentieth century. The empirical work makes use of data from three waves of the World Values survey covering …

World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …