Urban-rural happiness differentials across the world

MJ Burger, PS Morrison, M Hendriks… - World happiness …, 2020 - JSTOR
The aim of this chapter is to draw on the Gallup World Poll to examine urban-rural happiness
differentials across the world. 1 We begin with a general description of urban-rural …

Income inequality, life satisfaction inequality and trust: a cross country panel analysis

J Graafland, B Lous - Journal of happiness studies, 2019 - Springer
Literature has argued that income inequality crowds out trust. However, whether income
inequality makes people less trusting depends on how they perceive income inequality …

Happiness, happiness inequality and income dynamics in South Africa

U Kollamparambil - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020 - Springer
This paper explores the trends and determinants in happiness and happiness inequality in
South Africa at the individual and aggregate district municipality level using the four waves …

Inequality and happiness

A Ferrer-i-Carbonell, X Ramos - Handbook of Labor, Human Resources …, 2021 - Springer
The happiness literature empirically shows that individuals are happier not necessarily if
they live in a country with high economic growth, but most important if they live in cohesive …

Cooking fuel choices and subjective well-being in rural China: Implications for a complete energy transition

W Ma, P Vatsa, H Zheng - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impacts of cooking fuel choices on individuals' subjective well-
being, measured by happiness and life satisfaction, using open-access data from the 2016 …

A new class of composite indicators for measuring well-being at the local level: An application to the Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) of the Italian …

M Ciommi, C Gigliarano, A Emili, S Taralli, FM Chelli - Ecological indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to propose a class of composite indicators for measuring well-being
at the local level, which takes into account the variability between and within the local units …

Economic growth evens out happiness: Evidence from six surveys

AE Clark, S Flèche, C Senik - Review of income and wealth, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of the great U‐turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s,
happiness inequality has fallen in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in …

The great happiness moderation: Well-being inequality during episodes of income growth

AE Clark, S Flèche, C Senik - Happiness and economic growth …, 2014 - books.google.com
What should the populations of developing countries expect from income growth and
development? Easterlin and various co-authors have shown that, paradoxically, average …

Happiness inequality in China

J Yang, K Liu, Y Zhang - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019 - Springer
Along with China becoming an upper-middle-income country from a lower-middle-income
one after 2009, happiness inequality in China has been enlarged. Based on the Chinese …

The role of income and social capital for Europeans' well-being during the 2008 economic crisis

F Sarracino, M Piekałkiewicz - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2021 - Springer
We investigate whether the correlation of income and social capital with well-being changes
in times of economic crisis. Both subjective well-being and social capital may decline during …