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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical … between per capita GDP and life satisfaction over time which is positive for poorer countries, but flat (or negative) for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951423
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178514
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A Success Story? Happiness in the New Post-Communist EU Member States
Baltatescu, Sergiu - 2011
the level of living) and political (satisfaction with democracy) trends on the same time span. In all the studied … possibility of convergence. A non-economic factor, satisfaction with democracy, mediates the influence of GNI on life satisfaction … satisfaction than in the rest of European Union. Those who started with lower levels increased more, strongly suggesting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175782
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Paradox lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450390
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391355
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The Easterlin paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372750
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Education, income and happiness : panel evidence for the UK
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2017
Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770417
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803715
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505150