Easterlin and O'Connor (PNAS 2022) have investigated which economic, social, political, and ecological factors explain long-run (36-year) changes in European countries' happiness (life satisfaction). Considering six potential predictors advanced in the pertinent literature, they found only...

In diesem Aufsatz wird der ökonometrisch geschätzte Beitrag von Preisniveaustabilität, Beschäftigung und Wachstum zum subjektiven Wohlergehen (Well- Being) verwendet, um einen Erfolgsindex für die makroökonomische Performanz der EU12- Länder im Zeitraum 1990-2009 zu ermitteln. Durch einen...

This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions. This approach permits to show that citizens care about prosperity and the environment,...