Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance … between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in national levels of life satisfaction can largely be accounted by a small … number of socio-economic indicators. Life satisfaction is lowest in poor, corrupt countries where income inequality is …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility … satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution ; redistribution ; political ideology ; justice ; fairness …