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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

picture than either measure on its own. Second, we find strong evidence for the importance of both income and social context … effects of a few measures of the social and institutional context are as large as those of income in explaining both … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature and quality of the social context at work, at home, and in the community. While earlier studies have found...

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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

Starting from the assumption that improving well-being is the central consideration for public policies, we show how subjective well-being research can help, and already is helping, to choose public policies based on their consequences for all aspects of life. The core of the paper lies in...

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Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2017

This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations, better and deeper social connections, and especially higher levels of trust are linked to higher...

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Trust and Well-being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

well-being examined here show large and significant linkages to both household income and various measures of trust, it is … possible to estimate income-equivalent compensating differentials for different types of trust. Measures of trust studied …

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Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

hard to quantify in income-equivalent terms …

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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

Helliwell, John F. - 2004

This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim's (1897) findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being (Helliwell 2003). The results show that more social...

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New measures of the costs of unemployment : Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans

Helliwell, John F. - 2011

four percent decline in household income. We also find evidence indicating that job security is an important channel for …

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How's Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2002

, income and well-being. The main innovation of the paper, relative to earlier studies of subjective well-being, lies in its …

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