Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …

This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive … experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has a consistent …

In March 2020, the International Comparison Project published its latest results, for the calendar year 2017. This … globalized world where international transfers of capital and property rights can have enormous effects on GDP, such as the 26 …

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 …

-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …

find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …

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 … experimental data from Canada show that wallets are far more likely to be returned, even by strangers in large cities, than people …

World Poll (2005–2012). We find that migrants tend to make social trust assessments that mainly reflect conditions in the … one-third as important as the effect of local conditions. We also find that the altruistic behavior of migrants, as …