The empirical determinants of happiness in Brazil. This paper investigates the role that economic variables play in the … determination of happiness, using reported happiness as a proxy to individual well-being. It uses microdata extracted from the World … significant correlation between happiness and income. Unemployment is also a large source of unhappiness. In most cases, happiness …

The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian … satisfactory adjustment to the data. This suggests the existence of some type of non-observed heterogeneity explaining a … considerable proportion of the variation of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. Another …