This article reviews research on the relationship between happiness (subjective wellbeing)
and economic behaviour. I describe how experimental and non-experimental methods have …

Material well-being is defined in terms of satisfaction with a range economic concerns such
as government's handling of the economy, taxes, the cost of basic necessities, household …

Government programme interventions that improve rural settlements are expected to foster
human development. Although existing studies have shown that rural dwellers can …

Although it has become common sense that decent work is beneficial, few studies have
discussed how it works. To fill the gap, this study explored how the principle of decent work …

Subjective well-being (SWB) is widely recognized as an important health outcome, but its
complexity, myriad predictors, and analytic requirements pose significant challenges to …

This study used multi-level modeling in a sample of 952,739 adults across 150 countries to
investigate age differences in demographic, psychological, and social predictors of life …

In recent years, as Internet use has become more widespread, the use of “beyond-GDP”
measures have become increasingly important, bringing well-being analysis into a more …

The literature is rife with papers discussing the state of developed and developing
economies with a number of commonalities around what drives life satisfaction. In sum …

Life satisfaction (LS), as a major indicator of subjective well-being, is a rapidly growing
concern all over the world. Despite their country's powerful economic status, Japanese …

Despite being on average a relatively happy country, Colombia has a high level of inequality
in subjective well-being (SWB). Using Gallup World Poll data for the period from 2010 to …