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 …

differences and subjective evaluations of life satisfaction. There has been significant progress toward convergence in the overall …

frequently mentioned topic of economics and happiness. In the last few years the number of publications related to happiness from … observations. The second part shortly describes approach to the happiness problem of selected key historical personalities, namely …

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …

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

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