A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life courseWhat makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of...

Dass Geld und Besitz allein nicht glücklich machen, lässt sich auch mit Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung belegen. Aus der Glücksforschung müssen praktische Konsequenzen gezogen werden, wenn sich durch bestimmte politische Maßnahmen die Chancen auf mehr persönliches Glück steigern...

"What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms our ability to base our decisions on the outcomes that matter most, namely the wellbeing of us all including future...

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...