Die Glücksforschung ist mittlerweilen nicht mehr "nur" unter Philosophen, Psychologen und Neurobiologen ein Thema. Auch Ökonomen beschäftigen sich heute mit der Frage, was uns Menschen wirklich glücklich macht, und erweitern mit ihren Forschungsarbeiten die Standardökonomie auf...

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that happiness research is able to contribute important...

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that happiness research is able to contribute important...

An empirical finding by Gaspar, Jaramillo and Wingender (2016) shows that once countries cross a tax-to-GDP threshold of around 12 3/4 percent, real GDP per capita increases sharply and in a sustained manner over the following decade. In this paper, we attempt via four case studies-Spain, China,...