pronounced. The adverse effect of higher unemployment on life satisfaction is partially offset by the positive impact of lower …Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance … and institutional quality on average levels of self‐assessed well-being in the countries of the enlarged European Union …

Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set … subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select and combine measures into indicators. Subjective well-being overcomes … future concerns. Subjective well-being is the single most important, but necessarily not the only, indicator of progress …

opportunities, disparities in ownership and the upholding of traditional gender roles. In all, this could influence overall life … satisfaction such that capitalism confers more life satisfaction on men than on women. We test empirically whether this concern is … for general life satisfaction. When looking at women and men separately, we find virtually no statistically significant …

satisfaction, a proxy of subjective well-being. It examines the relationship between people's financial satisfaction and nations … financial satisfaction has a negative relationship with inflation and unemployment and a positive relationship with economic …Using the happiness survey data, a robust body of literature has supported that people's subjective well-being is …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual … 2.4 cm. Together with the positive association with male stature and the increase in gender dimorphism, we also show an …

people can experience leisure, how might it mitigate the negative effects of unemployment? And what form, then, would that … leisure take? The relationship between leisure and unemployment has not received the attention it merits, especially in North … America. Because research on leisure and unemployment must cross over areas of study, as well as theoreti …