well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered … findings in happiness regressions, such as a negative but u-shaped age effect, positive influences of education and relative …

happiness in Eastern Europe. In addition, rural dwellers and church goers experience greater life-satisfaction. Aggregate …This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase … unemployment can explain more of the cross-country variation in happiness than income per capita …

This paper analyzes the determinants of life satisfaction in a pooled data set of representative individual survey data … similar impact on happiness in Eastern Europe under a condition of dramatic economic, political, and social change. The … set. Cross-country differences in aggregate happiness can be explained well by variations in the unemployment rates, the …