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 …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …

Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …

This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over … and community factors on life satisfaction and depression among the oldest-old in China. Our analysis confirms the … significance of many factors affecting life satisfaction among the oldest-old in China. Factors that are correlated with life …

Well-being (i.e., satisfaction, happiness) is a latent variable, impossible to observe directly. Hence, questionnaires …

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often …-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, in its Report on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, put forward a number of recommendations …

-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …