The economics of happiness, or subjective well being, is an expanding field, with a growing
number of applied papers reporting empirical associations between happiness and other …

Happiness data—survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)—have become
increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking …

It is increasingly common for analysts to seek out the opinions of individuals and
organizations using attitudinal scales such as degree of satisfaction or importance attached …

Life satisfaction surveys are increasingly being used as a measure of welfare (Stiglitz et al.,
2009), and even proposed as a primary measure (Layard, 2005). On average worldwide …

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly
international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health …

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the
availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric …

I analyze differences in debt perception of households confronted with an objective debt
burden. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, my econometric analysis …

Economists have discovered (or rediscovered) happiness, or at least research on subjective
well-being and its economic correlates (see, eg, Van Praag, Frijters, & Ferrer-i-Carbonell …

Child and adolescent mental health problems are common and have serious impacts on
wellbeing, relationships, education, and long-term health. A public health priority is to …

Self‐reported life satisfaction is highly heterogeneous across similar countries, a
phenomenon that may be explained by the different scales and benchmarks that people use …