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Helliwell, John F. - 2016

national distribution of happiness. Thus the resilience-increasing feature of social trust reduces well-being inequality by … damaging to those living in trustworthy environments. These results suggest a fresh set of links between trust and inequality …

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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being : Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

Aknin, Lara B. - 2010

countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct …, causal impact on happiness. In contrast to traditional economic thought--which places self-interest as the guiding principle …

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Migration as a Test of the Happiness Set Point Hypothesis : Evidence from Immigration to Canada

Helliwell, John F. - 2016

Strong versions of the set point hypothesis argue that subjective well-being measures reflect each individual's own personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of life. International migration provides an excellent...

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How was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and other Emotions for US Workers

Helliwell, John F. - 2015

weekend effects for happiness, laughter, enjoyment and sadness, for both full-time and part-time workers, with significant but …

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

channels (including peace and conflict, trust, and inequality) whereby quality of government and happiness are linked. We …This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in …

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

help to restore to economics the breadth of purpose and methods it had two centuries ago, when happiness was considered the …

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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly sampled geographic regions, using natural,...

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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2017

This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations, better and deeper social connections, and especially higher levels of trust are linked to higher...

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How Much is Social Capital Worth?

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...

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