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 … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of low-income non-elderly adults. Various sensitivity checks and falsification …

This paper attempts to explain why large cities tend to score low on indices of happiness/life satisfaction, while at …

Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …

of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … geringerem Maße für Indikatoren des Wohlbefindens in bestimmten Lebensbereichen, wie die Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit und mit der … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …