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 that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder …

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …

-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …

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 …

This paper presents new evidence linking trust and subjective well-being, based primarily on data from the Gallup World … surveys and the Gallup World Poll ask respondents to estimate the chances that a lost wallet would be returned to them if …

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in …

additional evidence from an array of attitudinal questions that were worded slightly differently than standard happiness or life … satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country … estimates for advanced countries gives a similar minimum of 47.2. The happiness curve is everywhere …

living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of …We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … in status and 52% of one standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long …