associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … White women, respectively. The percentage of the non-White population seems to reduce older Whites’ life satisfaction more …This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

large international company. We analyze how leadership climate strength, defined as the shared perceptions of employees …

large international company. We analyze how leadership climate strength, defined as the shared perceptions of employees …

the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain …

limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the … human capital the strongest predictor for regional GDP is a sense of 'competence and meaning' among the population. However … analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in Europe and replacing the simple life satisfaction measure with measures 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 …

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 …

-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 …