The paper argues that there is a valuable overlap between quot;objective goodquot; and people's preferences over basic needs. Firstly, using survey data with 30,000 observations from twenty European countries I analyse the determinants of individual's quot;experienced utilityquot;. The proxy for...

This paper raises the issue whether public policy should focus on minimizing unhappiness rather than maximizing happiness. Using a cross-sectional multi-country dataset with 57,000 observations from 29 European countries, we show that unhappiness varies a great deal more across social groups...

Even though tax evasion has been the focus of a growing volume of research in recent years, the issue of its distributional impact is still relatively neglected. This paper is an attempt to analyse empirically the implications of tax evasion in terms of inequality, poverty, redistribution and...