from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most … negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …

, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict … costs the equivalent of a 50% drop in GDP per year in terms of subjective wellbeing. Public debt, on the other hand, has a …