In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score … level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …

of per capita income, experience with internal conflict, region of the world, oil, wealth, distance from the equator … do exist across the board. For example, even low income countries can achieve well in all categories while high income … countries do poorly. -- Human development ; quality of life ; happiness ; capabilities ; country behavior …

of per capita income, experience with internal conflict, region of the world, oil, wealth, distance from the equator … do exist across the board. For example, even low income countries can achieve well in all categories while high income …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …

with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries - Australia, Britain, Germany … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further … but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships …

the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score … level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …

the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 - we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from …

time-varying variables in the relationship between income and life satisfaction on the micro-level for the UK (Powdthavee … cross-country heterogeneity and income endogeneity in estimations on life satisfaction for sub-samples of advanced …, particularly considering transition and developing countries. Instrumenting for income, we find that cross-country heterogeneity is …