Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline-level reduces …

examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left … behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among …

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …

Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from … (temperature and rainfalls) on individual subjective well-being. We found that happiness is not associated with temperature, as … significantly associated with self-reported happiness. We found that the relationship is not linear, where higher rainfall is …