We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment … rate and the inflation rate. Our preferred interpretation is that this shows that emotions are affected by macroeconomic … fluctuations. Contentment is, at a minimum, one of the important emotions that central banks should focus on. More ambitiously …

In this paper we estimate the size of weekend effects for seven emotions and then explore their main determinants for … weekend effects exist for all emotions, and that these effects are not explained by sample selection bias. Full-time workers … have a larger weekend effects than do part- time workers for all emotions except sadness, for which weekend effects are …

wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … happiness and life satisfaction in recent years even before the onset of pandemic. As in the past they continue to have lower … in happiness data regarding whether males are happier than females but find little variation by month in unhappiness data …

lower life satisfaction and more pessimism about the future at age 50. Taken together, these results suggest social …

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 …

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in … government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …