needed. As an ultimate indicator, it has to be happiness-based. This paper argues that happiness is absolute, universal … largely non-comparable. The happy nation index takes both the average net happiness and average lifespan into account. Since …

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant …

While a large body of evidence suggests that unemployment and self-reported happiness are negatively correlated, it is … not clear whether this reflects a causal effect of unemployment on happiness and whether subsidized employment can … increase the happiness of the unemployed. To close this gap, this paper estimates the causal effect of a type of subsidized …

autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …

temperatures increase happiness and reduce tiredness and stress, raising net affect, and high temperatures reduce happiness …

satisfaction for subjective well-being (SWB) and relative income and employment security for objective well-being (OWB). We ran …