A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions ﾖ asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel ﾖ such as "how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4?" Yet there is little...

This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...

This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimum wage data since the late 1990s. Large regional variation...