Glücksforscher untersuchen meist die Zufriedenheit der Erwachsenen und welche Einflussfaktoren diese fördern und verbessern. Doch Förderung kann bei den ganz Kleinen besonders fruchtbar sein. Dabei zeigt sich, dass nicht das Haushaltseinkommen, sondern gemeinsame Aktivitäten für das Glück...

Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory overview -- The theoretical and metaphysical foundations of sciences -- Economics and psychology -- Evolutionary economics -- Neuroeconomics -- Happiness economics -- Institutional economics -- The capability approach -- Civil economy -- Conclusion --...

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...

The article deals with the concept of quality of life, are approaches to its definition. In this paper we focus on giving a variety of methods for measuring quality of life, studied the concept of Gross National Happiness.

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 multiple...

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...