effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …

and subjective well-being. Using Veenhoven's happiness dataset, the evidence suggests countries with better economic … effect of institutions on cross-national happiness is both significant and robust to different model specifications …

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 … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

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 …