This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...

Der Autor, ein US-Journalist, belegt akribisch die Fortschritte der Welt auf vielen Gebieten, zeigt, wo noch besondere Anstrengungen nötig seien (beim Klima und der Ungleichheit) und plädiert insgesamt für mehr Optimismus. (2)

This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...