of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and … holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. Using data on 131 countries, the …

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 …

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 …