Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides … program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing … improvements in children's health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however …

that people's happiness eventually returns to a stable reference level. We use a multi-country field experiment to examine … the impact of the provision of improved housing to extremely poor populations on subjective measures of well-being to test … whether poor populations exhibit hedonic adaptation when their basic housing needs are met. After sixteen months, we find that …

age 50 and older. We use a sample of 64,205 observations from 4 waves (2008-2014) of the Health and Retirement Study, a …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and …

,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly …

(2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico … Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity …

A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the … city's periphery. Fourteen years later, relative to lottery losers, winners report improved housing farther from the city … subsidized housing and 32% eventually exited. Our results point to the importance of considering social networks when designing …

manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the … prices and homicides and exploit within-municipality variations. We find that the impact of violence on housing prices is … a 3% decrease in the price of low-income housing. In spite of this large burden on the poor, the willingness to pay in …

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …