This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and …

performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest … that the conclusions reached by previous studies are fairly sensitive to the specific measure of "happiness" used. In …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …