Purpose – Empirical evidence on the relation between happiness (life satisfaction) and corruption is barely perceptible … corruption and per capita income to enter as arguments of a happiness “production function”. The correlation between happiness …-type trajectory, the study finds that the level of per capita income determines whether happiness and corruption are related and in …

happiness – but only in countries where corruption is most rampant. … development aid. Another more recent strand of the literature considers whether the receipt of aid affects the happiness of … developing countries. Since corruption, an indicator of the general environment, coexists with aid we consider an empirical model …