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 …

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

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 … satisfaction. We test for differences in the relative importance of different aspects of good government, and find a hierarchy of …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …- being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their …

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 …

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

satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …