of Happiness is an example of such a tool. The archive is tailored to meet the requirements of assembling research … findings on happiness; both distributional findings (how happy people are) and correlational findings (what things go together … with happiness). With its focus on 'findings' the system differs from data-archives that store 'investigations' and from …

performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association … measure of ‘happiness’ used, while the associations between institutions and subjective well-being differ among poor and rich …

performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …. Our findings suggest that their conclusions are qualitatively rather insensitive to the specific measure of ‘happiness …

explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our …

We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling … edge medical technologies) lead in the static (time-invariant) explanation of happiness and its gender gap, while economic …, the Happiness and Economics field has provided original evidence on the country and time variant nature of the happiness …

compensation, women are more reluctant than men to choose tournaments. These gender difference experiments have all relied on a … such as piece-rate and group pay, and removes the gender difference in compensation choices. I then examine between and …

alternative specifications, using both self-reported life satisfaction and self-reported happiness, and different cut-off points … for defining unhappiness (dissatisfaction) and high levels of happiness (satisfaction). While misery appears to strongly … happiness. Using a cross-sectional multi-country dataset with 57 thousand observations from 29 European countries, we show that …

decrease happiness and life satisfaction in European countries. In some cases there is evidence of an inverted U …Until now there was little evidence of the influence of large governments on happiness and when it existed, it was …-shaped relationship between the Government burden and happiness, for which the negative relationship begin just before the median. This …

This investigation discusses and employs dynamic panel analysis to provide new insights into the concept of happiness …. Using the British Household Panel Survey, it is demonstrated that happiness is largely (but not wholly) contemporaneous … individual or an individual’s perception of their life (or both) for it to be reflected in self-reported life satisfaction scores …