This study consists of three empirical essays that analyse the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment …

share the same individual determinants of happiness as people in the West (despite some significant cross-country variation … macroeconomic side, GDP growth is still a source of increasing well-being, but the happiness bonus associated with it is becoming … smaller. The different levels of individual happiness in CEE are therefore mostly determined by institutional factors such as …

happiness – but only in countries where corruption is most rampant. … development aid. Another more recent strand of the literature considers whether the receipt of aid affects the happiness of … developing countries. Since corruption, an indicator of the general environment, coexists with aid we consider an empirical model …

between migrants and urban residents-affects individual happiness. The main results are as follows. First, migrants suffer … migrants, and they also favor higher relative income among urban residents. Fourth, "born?urban residents have lower happiness …

Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1 …,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This … is the ‘Easterlin Paradox’ – the finding that self-reported happiness does not always appear to grow in tandem with …