residences, significantly reduce overall life satisfaction and specific domains like community, personal safety, and health …

the Covid-19 global health pandemic. This helps us understand the dynamics of happiness due to an external shock and …This paper estimates Markov switching models with daily happiness (GNH) data from New Zealand for a period inclusive of … states of happiness and estimate the duration in these states. In addition, as maximising happiness is a policy priority, we …

well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses the causal effect of mandatory lockdown on happiness in three very …, notwithstanding the characteristics of a country or the lockdown regulations, whether a lockdown negatively affects happiness …. Secondly, we compare the effect size of the lockdown on happiness between these countries. We make use of Difference …

Happiness levels (states) are volatile and often fluctuate between a happy and unhappy state from one day to the next … Regression Model (MSDR) to better understand the dynamic patterns of happiness levels before and during a pandemic. The estimated … unique insights into the evolution of happiness. Furthermore, as maximising happiness is a policy priority, we determine the …

lockdown regulations, while amid an economic crisis. We analyse the impact of both Covid-19 and the lockdown on happiness. We … use the Gross National Happiness Index to compare the determinants of happiness before and after the Covid-19 lockdown … regulations. Further, we estimate the likelihood of happiness levels in 2020, reaching the average levels in 2019 using two models …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of ‘more children, more happiness’ by exploiting … representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …