Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We find support for a positional concern effect or 'envy' whose magnitude in …

Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We find support for a positional concern effect or envy whose magnitude in …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors … related to impacts on happiness, such as adaptation, social work norms, social capital, religious beliefs, and psychological … resources. Getting unemployed people back to work can do more for their happiness than compensating them for doing nothing. But …

answers. Here I use a net "happiness" measure, which is percentage Yes less percentage No with Maybe treated as zero. Average … happiness is around +20 on this scale for all respondents from 1972 to the last pre-pandemic survey (2018). However, there is a …