The Origins of Happiness

Chapter 16 a society in a similar way, but that differ between societies. These are public goods, and we can study their effects ...

The Origins of Happiness Income. Log GDP per head. Health. Healthy life expectancy (in years). As the first column of numbers ...

Chapter 16 16.2). Even in China, happiness was no higher in 2010 than it was in 1990.^15 We would be very happy if the cross- se ...

The Origins of Happiness Policy Evaluation The purpose of all these numbers (not too many we hope) is to guide decisions— by ind ...

Chapter 16 So what would be the equivalent cut- off for a policy aimed at maximizing “Happiness- Years” rather than Quality- Adj ...

The Origins of Happiness physical world. But we have now come, after all these cen- turies, to where we can quantify the influen ...

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OUR THANKS This has been a long project involving many members of the Wellbeing Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance ...

Our Thanks This project has been made possible thanks to gener- ous funding from the National Institute on Aging (Grant R01AG040 ...

CONTENTS OF ONLINE MATERIALS Available at http://cep.lse.ac.uk/origins/onlinematerial.pdf Descriptive Statistics (e.g., Table D ...

Contents of Online Materials Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Syst ...

SOURCES AND NOTES FOR TABLES AND FIGURES Table 0.1. Factors explaining the existing government’s vote share (partial correlation ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Figure 1.4. How adult outcomes are affected by child outcomes at 16 (British Cohort ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Table 2.3. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by own income and comparator ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Table 3.2. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by qualifications (British Co ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Notes: People aged 25– 64. Robust standard errors in parentheses. Con- trols for in ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Figure 4.2. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by weekly hours of work— com ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Notes: People aged 25+. All effects are measured relative to the same individual fi ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures also include comparison income, education, unemployment, and partnership. In Britai ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures disabled=1 if registered as legally disabled. Australia: disabled=1 if has health c ...