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O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...

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Measuring national well-being : a UK perspective

Everett, Glenn - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 34-42

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Geography of happiness : configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations

Brulé, Gaël; Veenhoven, Ruut - In: International journal of happiness and development 2 (2015) 2, pp. 101-117

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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures … and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder …

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

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 with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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