This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

. This entry also briefly discusses: recent history of well-being measurement; what makes people better off in theory; the …

Existing well-being measurement initiatives in the region, such as the Quality of Life Indicators in Korea, Bhutan …’s Gross National Happiness Index and Quality of Life Index in the Philippines, shed some insight on dimensions that should be … considered for measuring well-being beyond GDP in Asia. Dimensions of housing, health, education, environment and civic …

and subjective well-being. Using Veenhoven's happiness dataset, the evidence suggests countries with better economic … confounders of national subjective well-being such as income, unemployment, inequality, social capital and life satisfaction. The … effect of institutions on cross-national happiness is both significant and robust to different model specifications …

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often …-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, in its Report on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, put forward a number of recommendations …

data for 34 OECD societies, we can show that from a happiness perspective, there is-surprisingly-little wrong with the GDP … search for a new, widely accepted, internationally comparable measure of well-being. -- Better Life Index ; GDP ; happiness …Across the globe there is growing skepticism about the usefulness of GDP as a measure of national well …