Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we …

well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered …

implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in … that East Germans experienced a continued improvement in life satisfaction after 1990 to which increased household incomes …