studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …

studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person’s happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …

We estimate the distributional effects of freedom and income on happiness for East Asian Chinese societies through an … ordinal parametric quantile regression approach. The results show that freedom and income exhibit positive and significant … effects across societies and happiness levels. The freedom effects generally become larger for those at higher happiness …

satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments …-benefit analysis ; life satisfaction ; happiness …

institutional context variables, i.e. trust and the perception of freedom, have higher correlations with the two SWB variables used … estimates reconfirm the importance of trust and, in particular, of the perception of freedom. These variables explain more of …