it, or replacing it. This chapter portrays some of these new measures and puts them to a happiness test: compared to the … for 34 OECD societies, we can show that from a happiness perspective, there is-surprisingly-little wrong with the GDP, and … sum, the chapter demonstrates that a happiness perspective can add important insights along the way to facilitate the …

of Happiness is an example of such a tool. The archive is tailored to meet the requirements of assembling research … findings on happiness; both distributional findings (how happy people are) and correlational findings (what things go together … with happiness). With its focus on 'findings' the system differs from data-archives that store 'investigations' and from …

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … comparisons in determining happiness. …

level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …