satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …

an aggregation based on how individual dimensions of welfare relate to average life satisfaction across regions, which …

citizen, as well as the transmission mechanisms through which policies and institutions affect life satisfaction. We find that …

Using data from surveys of life satisfaction, evidence has been presented that European citizens' subjective well … additional variables in life satisfaction regressions. The paper finds that people care about growth and employment on the one …