between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … nationally representative samples to study the correlates of religion within and between more than 140 countries using more than …

differences in capital accumulation, productivity, and therefore output per worker are driven by differences in institutions and …

compensating differentials, measured as the changes in household income that would produce equivalent levels of life satisfaction … and country - and find that they add significantly to the explanation of life satisfaction among Canadian respondents, and …

correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve … well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a … variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (trust and quality of government), and less …

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 …

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 … World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in …

globalized world where international transfers of capital and property rights can have enormous effects on GDP, such as the 26 …

This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …