insights from psychology to support their positions: Scitovsky's Joyless Economy, happiness economics, and the constitutional … normative step, is revealed by the choice of a psychological theory or method rather than resulting from the application of a … theory or method. Secondly, this paper demonstrates that personal judgement by the authors is often needed in the positive …

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

spatial equilibrium in life satisfaction. Our results indicate that each individual government that wishes to raise the life … satisfaction of its residents still needs to boost those residents' incomes in order to raise their subjective wellbeing. However … satisfaction stays stable despite rising global incomes …