In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home (WFH) became of
great importance for a large share of employees since it represents the only option to both …

Innovation research is motivated by the understanding that new technologies contribute to
address societal challenges and foster welfare. Extant research in the economics of …

Welfare and well-being have traditionally been gauged by using income and employment
statistics, life expectancy, and other objective measures. The Economics of Happiness …

Subjective well-being is defined as how happy and satisfied a person is in his life. To date,
among the significant determinants of subjective well-being, national income is considered …

The flourishing literature in economics, sociology, and religious studies finds that religious
individuals are happier than the nonreligious. This chapter summarizes the most influential …

This paper evaluates the direct and indirect impacts (and their interactions) of individual and
social ethics from (primary, secondary, tertiary) education and religion (Buddhism …

We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform
inputs into subjective well-being. To this purpose, we use as inputs six factors (real GDP per …

The background of the study is the analysis of social expenditure efficiency in European
countries over time. Terminological considerations leading from hedonism and …

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform
inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita …

It marks an important step to expand the study of productivity to treat subjective well-being
rather than GDP as the objective. At the national level, this might involve using an aggregate …