This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over … and community factors on life satisfaction and depression among the oldest-old in China. Our analysis confirms the … significance of many factors affecting life satisfaction among the oldest-old in China. Factors that are correlated with life …

preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … preferences enjoyed a life satisfaction rise of 0.16 points, while there was a drop of 0.15 points for those preferring to remain …

of novices in the field, and while evaluating their job satisfaction …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …

district) with a population largely unaffected by MGNREGS at the time of our survey. The secondary objective of the paper is to …) overlap. The results suggest that wide implementation of MGNREGS is associated with higher global (absolute) life satisfaction … but not with higher (relative) local life satisfaction. It is also associated with lower self-reported poverty and higher …

extensively by economists, can be understood as a synonym for life satisfaction or happiness. Industrial societies and …In the most rational sense, the pursuit of happiness is the end goal of all our actions. Utility, a word used … European Social Survey and the World Value survey, two data sets that contain expressed preferences, to bring to light some of …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

We propose a measure of life satisfaction, alternative to the standard synthetic cognitive wellbeing question, based on … the specifi c contribution of eleven life satisfaction sub-components (including satisfaction about the past, life … and corrects the Danish life satisfaction bias in the direction suggested by the vignette approach. These fi ndings do not …

-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …