, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using … behind. Each component we introduce plays a significant role in accounting for these differences, with mortality being most …

Lack of income convergence for the world as a whole has led to concerns about the impact of globalization of markets on … world inequality. GDP per capita is usually used to proxy for the quality of life of individuals living in different … responsible for most of the mortality convergence observed between 1965 and 1995 …

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

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

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 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 …

reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain …

' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …

-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women … endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …. This is the true paradox - morbidity doesn't match mortality by gender. Women say they are less cheerful and calm, more …