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Is it possible to raise national happiness?

Prati, Alberto; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2026

We revisit the famous Easterlin paradox by considering that life evaluation scales refer to a changing context, hence they are regularly reinterpreted. We propose a simple model of rescaling based on both retrospective and current life evaluations, and apply it to unexploited archival data from...

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Is it possible to raise national happiness?

Prati, Alberto; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2025

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Is it possible to raise national happiness?

Prati, Alberto; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2024

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When economic growth improves subjective well-being

Sarracino, Francesco; Burger, Martijn; Peroni, Chiara; … - 2026

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When economic growth improves subjective well-being

Sarracino, Francesco; Burger, Martijn J.; Peroni, Chiara; … - 2026

This paper provides updated evidence on the possibility of a virtuous cycle that, by prioritizing subjective well-being in decision making, would lead to socially and environmentally sustainable economies where individuals can thrive. We first argue that economic growth does not guarantee better...

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The Easterlin paradox at 50

Oparina, Ekaterina; Clark, Andrew E.; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2026

We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries from 2009-2019 at both the individual and country levels to revisit the relationship between income and subjective wellbeing. Our inspiration is the paradox first proposed by Easterlin (1974), according to which higher incomes are associated...

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The Easterlin paradox at 50

Oparina, Ekaterina; Clark, Andrew E.; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2024

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Teaching happiness (economics) in your dismal-science courses

Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; Ifcher, John; Oparina, … - 2025

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Beyond money : exploring financial well-being through a human lens

2025

Three years ago, ERSTE Foundation, Erste Group and the University of Tartu decided to try out something new: changing perspective to explore financial well-being through a human lens. At ERSTE Foundation, we aim to understand what prosperity means to individuals and our societies and how our...

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Mehr als nur Geld : was finanzielles Wohlbefinden für Menschen bedeutet

2025

Vor drei Jahren beschlossen wir gemeinsam mit der Erste Group und der Universität Tartu, etwas Neues auszuprobieren: eine neue Perspektive einzunehmen und finanzielles Wohlbefinden vom Menschen ausgehend zu beleuchten. Wir bei der ERSTE Stiftung wollen verstehen, was Wohlstand für den oder die...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe by welfare policies and economic growth: Easterlin and O'Connor revisited

Welsch, Heinz - 2024

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe by welfare policies and economic growth : Easterlin and O'Connor revisited

Welsch, Heinz - 2024

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Socioeconomic determinants of happiness : empirical evidence from developed and developing countries

Behera, Deepak Kumar; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Padmaja, M.; … - 2024

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Bien-être ressenti et revenu : l'argent fait-il le bonheur ?

Germain, Jean-Marc - 2024

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Commentary on "Income and happiness: a Philippines context"

Beja, Edsel L. - 2021

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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble....

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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020

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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

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Is there an income-happiness puzzle in China? : a national survey, 2003-2021

Yang, Jinyang - 2023

This study investigates the income-happiness puzzle in China by examining the trends in happiness and economic growth over the past two decades. It is the first long-term study in China to utilize a consistent national representative survey in the new century. Using data from the Chinese General...

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Is There An Income-Happiness Puzzle in China? A National Survey, 2003-2021

Yang, Jinyang - 2023

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The socio political demography of happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2023

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The socio political demography of happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2023

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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The Easterlin paradox of entrepreneurs during China's economic transition

Yang, Jidong; Zeng, Yunqi; Wang, Qing - 2023

This paper investigates the determinants and the time pattern of the subjective well-being of private business owners. We find that both personal and enterprise-level factors have a significant influence on subjective status of private business owners. Meanwhile, we find supportive evidence of...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2023

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Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

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Advertising as a major source of humandissatisfaction : cross-national evidence on one million Europeans

Michel, Chloé; Sovinsky, Michelle; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2019

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Declining Life Satisfaction and Happiness Among Young Adults in Six English-speaking Countries

Twenge, Jean M.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2025

We report eleven studies that show declines in life satisfaction and happiness among young adults in the last decade or so, with less uniform trends among older adults. We found consistent evidence for this for the U.S. in the recent sweeps of several micro data sets including the Behavioral...

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Development of happiness in the contemporary world : from GDP to doughnut economics

2025

Development of Happiness in the Contemporary World explores the shift from GDP-focused metrics to alternative models like Doughnut Economics, highlighting innovative approaches to measuring well-being and sustainability in modern economic systems

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Indicators for happiness: is there any similarity among them? : ranking of Spain

Diego-Álvarez, Dorotea de; Araujo-Abreu, Alba Rosa - 2025

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Happiness in the marketplace : a study of consumption, consumers and wellbeing

Lee, Dong-Jin; Sirgy, M. Joseph - 2025

This book provides a systematic review and analysis of the literature on product-related, situational, organizational, and cultural factors influencing people’s happiness in the marketplace. The authors, senior experts in the field, make specific recommendations to design and implement...

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Informe socioeconómico de la felicidad en España (2024)

Ravina Ripoll, Rafael; Blanco-Moreno, Sofía; Salazar … - 2025

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Income and happiness : a study of a panel of US residents

Zhang, Ling; Lahiri, Sajal - 2025

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Happiness and life satisfaction in Central Asia

Nurdinova, Shoirakhon - 2025

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of life satisfaction and happiness in Central Asia from an empirical and comparative perspective. Drawing on econometric models, it reveals how economic conditions, gender, culture, and social norms shape subjective well-being in Kazakhstan,...

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Are Africans happy? 'Return to laughter' in times of war, famine and misery

Kohnert, Dirk - 2022

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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...

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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the world happiness report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

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Happiness and the quality of government

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang; Wang, Shun - 2020

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang; Wang, Shun - 2022

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang; Wang, Shun - 2020

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

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Is Happiness Inherited?

Kuete, Yselle - 2022

Using a counterfactual approach based on propensity score matching with Rosenbaum bounds in a cross section of 134 countries, we study the causal effect of colonisation on contemporary subjective happiness. Findings reveal that the settled countries, specifically former French colonies,...

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Happiness : concept, measurement and promotion

Ng, Yew-Kwang - 2022

This open access book defines happiness intuitively and explores several common conceptual mistakes with regard to happiness. It then moves on to address topical issues including, but not limited to, whether money can buy you happiness, why happiness is ultimately the only thing of intrinsic...

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Solving the income-happiness paradox

Khalil, Elias L. - 2022

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The Economics of Happiness Research

Fernandez-Urbano, Roger - 2022

This Encyclopedia entry aims to review the current state of the art on the economics of happiness. It is organized into past, present and future research. The past research section focuses on the moral philosophical theory of utilitarianism and the ‘method dispute’ in the late 18th and early...

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Trends and fluctuations in financial satisfaction and macroeconomic indicators in times of economic changes : the case of Latin America

Macchia, Lucía; Plagnol, Anke C.; Easterlin, Richard A. - 2024

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Asymmetric effects of democracy and macroeconomic factors on happiness under high and low per capita incomes : a threshold panel analysis

Kundu, Srikanta; Kundu, Ruma; Chettri, Kul Bahadur - 2024

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Better living through political engineering

McCann, Charles R.; Kapuria-Foreman, Vibha - 2024

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Happiness in India

Laskar, Mahmudul Hasan - 2024

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Happiness in Uzbekistan

Nurdinova, Shoirakhon - 2024

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Gandhian Idea of Gross National Happiness

Chauhan, Vijay - 2021

Samuel Butler once wrote, “True greatness wears an invisible cloak, under the cover of which it goes in and out among men without being suspected. We live in an age of stark contradictions. The world enjoys technologies of unimaginable sophistication; yet has at least one billion people...

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Building an epidemiology of happiness

Helliwell, John F.; Gyarmati, David; Joyce, Craig; … - 2020

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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

Helliwell, John F.; Gyarmati, David; Joyce, Craig; … - 2021

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Building an Epidemiology of Happiness

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

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Measuring and using happiness to support public policies

Helliwell, John F. - 2019

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Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies

Helliwell, John F. - 2021

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Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies

Helliwell, John F. - 2019

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2021

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica - 2014

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Subjective Well-Being and Income : Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021

Many scholars have argued that once “basic needs” have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing...

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