One of the most important social effects of the 2006 football World Cup was the feel-good effect. The present … systematically analyses the influencing factors taking the 2006 World Cup as an example. Of importance are suitable basic …

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 … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction distributions for six countries reveal a substantial number of unanimous …

abolition of compulsory military and civil service for males in 2011 in Germany as a natural experiment to identify effects of … institutionalized career disruptions on life satisfaction. Drawing on data from the SOEP, we apply a difference-in-differences design … (comparing young males and females) to assess the causal effect of this reform on individual life satisfaction. Our results show …

This paper analyzes the e ffect of regional income inequality within countries on individual life satisfaction. We use … data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the European Values Survey (EVS) containing approximately 97,000 observations … that higher regional income inequality leads to lower life satisfaction in OECD countries. In non-OECD countries, we find …