positive and significant effect on life satisfaction. Our findings shed some light on the age-happiness pattern. Policy …

During the last 30 years US citizens experienced, on average, a decline in reported happiness, social connections, and … confidence in institutions. We show that a remarkable portion of the decrease in happiness is predicted by the decline in social … connections and confidence in institutions. We carry out our investigation in three steps. First, we run a happiness regression …

-economic determinants of happiness and health. Although they have been pursued quite independently by different communities of researchers … happiness and health. In addition, we argue that the so-called “paradox of happiness”, extensively discussed in the first … research stream, has an empirical counterpart in the decoupling between self-reported happiness and health indexes: while life …

Most popular explanations of the happiness paradox cannot fully account for the lack of growth in U.S. reported well … findings. First, we show that the inclusion of social capital does improve the account of reported happiness. Second, we …)). Finally, we show that failed growth of happiness is largely due to the decline of social capital and, in particular, to the …

thirty years. We test the hypothesis that the relationship between social capital and happiness at the individual level … capital are significantly correlated with reported happiness. Second, social capital indicators for the period 1975-2004 show … a declining trend. Finally, the trend of happiness can be largely accounted for by the increasing trend of income, the …

claim that television viewing in general has a negative impact on individual happiness. Using a large cross …

happiness. Our level and first difference panel estimates show that relational goods have significant and positive effects on …