relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

from the measurement error literature, which relaxes the classical assumption on measurement error, to correct measures of … reported happiness in 79 countries. Our findings suggest that there are substantial misclassification errors in the reported … happiness, and the patterns of discrepancy between the reported and corrected SWB are heterogenous over countries. Utilizing the …

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered … happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …

evaluative, affective and eudaimonic indicators in national measurement frameworks and household surveys has grown. Country … practice has converged around a standard measure of life satisfaction, however affective and eudaimonic measures remain less …

). While a number of empirical studies demonstrate that higher religiosity is associated with higher happiness at the level of …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … unemployment. -- unemployment ; life satisfaction ; job security ; public sector …

self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both …

of per capita income, experience with internal conflict, region of the world, oil, wealth, distance from the equator … countries do poorly. -- Human development ; quality of life ; happiness ; capabilities ; country behavior …