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 …

distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … cross-sectional data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for the year 2006, we apply quantile regressions to … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these …

paid work hours are negatively correlated with life satisfaction, our results suggest that inequality of well-being may …

This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … matters does overall not affect life satisfaction. However, women are more satisfied with their lives when discriminatory …

This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … matters does overall not affect life satisfaction. However, women are more satisfied with their lives when discriminatory …

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 …

large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age. …

satisfaction for subjective well-being (SWB) and relative income and employment security for objective well-being (OWB). We ran …