, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income …

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 …

This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over … and community factors on life satisfaction and depression among the oldest-old in China. Our analysis confirms the … significance of many factors affecting life satisfaction among the oldest-old in China. Factors that are correlated with life …

Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …

neighbourhood-specific confounding effects. Our findings suggest that the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on life satisfaction …

extensively by economists, can be understood as a synonym for life satisfaction or happiness. Industrial societies and …In the most rational sense, the pursuit of happiness is the end goal of all our actions. Utility, a word used … European Social Survey and the World Value survey, two data sets that contain expressed preferences, to bring to light some of …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the … human capital the strongest predictor for regional GDP is a sense of 'competence and meaning' among the population. However … analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in Europe and replacing the simple life satisfaction measure with measures of …