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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 …
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This paper investigates the role of civic engagement, an important form of social capital from the supply side, in buffering the adverse effects of challenging life circumstances in three key domains-employment, marriage, and health-on individual subjective well-being, specifically in terms of...
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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 …
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Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or …
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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...
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future personal and country well-being. These measures allow the analysis of two dimensions of happiness data not previously …
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per …-term positive association between the growth of happiness and income, arising from fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions, with … the long-term relationship, which is nil. -- Happiness ; economic growth ; developing countries ; transition countries …
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African countries, but modest gains for Northern Europe. -- Climate ; climate change ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey …
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Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … artifact. Some analysts assert that in less developed countries happiness and economic growth are positively related "up to … initial level, life satisfaction has not improved. -- happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; income ; long …
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employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world …. -- happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; economic growth ; safety net policies ; developed countries ; transition …
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