The Origins of Happiness

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Figure 8.2. Subjective well- being by level of economic development and historical ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Figure 9.3. What affects changes in life- satisfaction over an eight- year interval ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Table 10.2. How children’s behavior is affected by family income (ALSPAC) Source: O ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. For additional controls see notes for ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. For additional controls see notes for ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Table 13.3. How family conflict affects children’s behavior (ALSPAC) Source: Online ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures Table 14.2. How children’s outcomes at 16 are affected by second- ary school charac ...

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures age, age- squared, women, having children, year, and region dum- mies. Bold: p < ...

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NOTES Introduction: The New Paradigm Bentham ([1789] 1996); Layard (2011). Jefferson (1809). Layard, Mayraz, and Nickell (2010) ...

Notes to Pages 1–18 The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Gal- lup World Poll (GWP), Eurobarometer, and Europ ...

Notes to Pages 18–35 The corresponding α- coefficients can be calculated from the β- coefficients using the standard deviations ...

Notes to Pages 35–42 Life- satisfaction as a broad measure of subjective well- being has been subject to a number of validity t ...

Notes to Pages 42–46 Easterlin, Wang, and Wang (2017). For an attempt to marshal all the possible factors see Bartolini, Bilanc ...

Notes to Pages 46–54 See also Clark and D’Ambrosio (2015). In many ways experi- mental data involve fewer problems than natural ...

Notes to Pages 55–61 0.08 = (0.03 + 0.05 − 0.01 + 0.07)/4 + 0.06/2.5. It could be turned into a rate of return as follows. The ...

Notes to Pages 62–67 once. However the duration of unemployment is also influenced by the income replacement ratio for the unemp ...

Notes to Pages 68–83 The simple correlation is 0.12. Kahneman, Krueger, et al. (2004). Krueger (2007), Krueger, Kahneman, Fisch ...

Notes to Pages 83–93 We do of course know whether some people in the sample have had children who have left home, but we do not ...

Notes to Pages 93–106 In online Table A6.2 we show, for those surveys where the data permit, a fixed- effects analysis. See onl ...