This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

Well-being (i.e., satisfaction, happiness) is a latent variable, impossible to observe directly. Hence, questionnaires …

, this paper examines the predictors of adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) from a cross-cultural angle. Life satisfaction … quality, and peer SWB. Analyses by world region reveal several culture-specific explanations for interregional well-being gaps …. In particular, low life satisfaction among academically high-performing students from Confucian East Asia is found to be …

Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …

Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or … international well-being rankings - demonstrate that efficiency is lower among the unemployed, divorced/separated, widowed, the old …. This paper provides the first evidence from an international panel concerning the issue of whether higher well-being levels …

-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …

Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …