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

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

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

Stevenson, Betsey - 2013

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

Stevenson, Betsey - 2013

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

Stevenson, Betsey - 2013

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Commentary on "Income and happiness: a Philippines context"

Beja, Edsel L. - 2021

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An unhappy pursuit of happiness

Oliver, Adam - 2021

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Does urban greenadd to happiness? : a research synthesis using an online finding archive

Veenhoven, Ruut; Wagner, Nivré Claire; Ott, Jan - 2021

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What future happiness research?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2021

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What future happiness research?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2021

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Rehabilitating L.W. Sumner's "Happiness Theory of Welfare" : part 1: Sumner's welfare theoretic system

Sinstead-Reid, Andrew - 2021

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Happy Analysts

Hope, Ole-Kristian; Li, Congcong; Lin, An-Ping; Rabier, … - 2020

This paper is the first to investigate the role of work-life balance in financial analysts’ performance and career advancement. Using a large sample of Glassdoor reviews by financial analysts, we find a significant non-linear relation between work-life balance and analyst performance and...

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Happy Analysts

Hope, Ole-Kristian - 2020

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

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

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The cost of being too patient

Giuliano, Paola; Sapienza, Paola - 2020

We study the cost of being too patient on happiness. We find that the relationship between patience and various measures of subjective well-being is hump-shaped: it exists an optimal amount of patience that maximizes happiness. Beyond this optimal level, higher levels of patience have a negative...

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The cost of being too patient

Giuliano, Paola; Sapienza, Paola - 2020

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The cost of being too patient

Giuliano, Paola; Sapienza, Paola - 2020

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The economics of happiness

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2020

Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment statistics, life expectancy, and other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness, which is based on people's reports of how their lives are going, provides a complementary yet radically different approach...

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The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising incomein rural China : tenhypotheses

Knight, John B.; Ma, Bianjing; Gunatilaka, Ramani - 2020

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Econometrics of money and happiness in India

Lakshmanasamy, T. - 2023

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Wellbeing : science and policy

Layard, Peter R. G.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2023

"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...

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Wellbeing : science and policy

Layard, Peter R. G.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2023

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Against happiness

Flanagan, Owen J.; LeDoux, Joseph E.; Bingle, Bobby; … - 2023

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Impact of minimalist practices on consumer happiness and financial well-being

Malik, Faiza; Ishaq, Muhammad Ishtiaq - 2023

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Happiness management in the corporate domain : a bibliometric analysis

Martinez Falcó, Javier; Marco Lajara, Bartolomé; … - 2023

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

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2023

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Have econometric analyses of happiness data been futile? : a simple truth about happiness scales

Chen, Le-Yu; Oparina, Ekaterina; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; … - 2019

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that com-paring the mean of ordinal data is only valid under strong assumptions that are usually rejected by...

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Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth About Happiness Scales

Chen, Le‐Yu - 2019

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Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth About Happiness Scales

Chen, Le‐Yu - 2019

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Gross national happiness and macroeconomic indicators in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Balasubramanian, Sriram; Cashin, Paul A. - 2019

This paper examines the origins and use of the concept of Gross National Happiness (or subjective well-being) in the Kingdom of Bhutan, and the relationship between measured well-being and macroeconomic indicators. While there are only a few national surveys of Gross National Happiness in...

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Gross National Happiness and Macroeconomic Indicators in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Balasubramanian, Sriram - 2019

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An Outline of Happiness Index

Bhinde, Hetal - 2019

Recently, the interested of researcher has been diverted to the area of ‘Happiness Index’. Many countries are now measuring their growth in correlation with ‘Happiness Index’ of nation’s population.This paper tries to give a brief about the work done by researchers in domain of...

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A Framework for Reconciling Trade, Industrial Policies and Gross National Happiness in Bhutan

Ciuriak, Dan - 2019

This note discusses the evolution of trade and industrial policy, emphasizing the primacy of acquisition of technology, and highlighting the central role of the firm as the receptor and repository of technology for economic development, and suggests how these policies can be deployed by Bhutan...

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