This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for … Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and … holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. Using data on 131 countries, the …

, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income …

. This entry also briefly discusses: recent history of well-being measurement; what makes people better off in theory; the …

Component Analysis. Our analysis shows that BLI increases with GDP only for poor countries, extending the Easterlin Paradox to … the quality of life measurement; that good performances in BLI are not necessarily due to a high efficiency of the whole …

among the last places in terms of GDP per capita or median income, and despite this the population of our country has an …The paper analyzes the satisfaction regarding the financial situation in Romania compared to the rest of the member … countries of the European Union. The work analyzed indicators that express the material well-being of a society such as: GDP and …