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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...
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We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of income and status and compare the long run effects. We...
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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 …
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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 …
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World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and …
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satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
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We propose a summary statistic for the economic well-being of people in a country. Our measure incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using multi-country data sets. While welfare is highly...
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The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear...
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globalized world where international transfers of capital and property rights can have enormous effects on GDP, such as the 26 …
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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 …
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