The Origins of Happiness

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Notes to Pages 117–125

individuals, only 22% is across countries and 78% within countries
(Helliwell, Layard, and Sachs [2012], 12).



  1. World Values Survey.

  2. Knack (2001).

  3. Similar size effects are found in the World Values Survey and even
    larger ones in the European Social Survey— see table 2 of Helliwell, Huang,
    and Wang (2016). For the effect of unemployment, see our Chapter 3.

  4. Summarized in Helliwell and Wang (2011).

  5. Helliwell (2007).

  6. Bartolini, Bilancini, and Sarracino (2016), Sarracino (2010).

  7. See Helliwell, Layard, and Sachs (2016), 16.

  8. See for example, T. Singer and Ricard (2016), Ricard (2015),
    S. L. Brown et al. (2003), and Thoits and Hewitt (2001).

  9. Meier and Stutzer (2008).

  10. Anik et al. (2010). See also Dunn, Aknin, and Norton (2008).

  11. Harbaugh, Mayr, and Burghart (2007). See also Zaki and Mitch-
    ell (2011), who also show that inequitable behavior causes activity in
    brain regions associated with subjective disutility.

  12. Davidson and Begley (2012), 220– 23.

  13. Kahneman, Krueger, et al. (2004), table 1; Krueger, Kahneman,
    Schkade, et al. (2009), chapter 2; and Bryson and MacKerron (2017).

  14. For example, Putnam (2000) and Halpern (2004).

  15. Nguyen and Benet- Martínez (2012), Knight and Gunatilaka
    (2010), Knight, Song, and Gunatilaka (2010), and Easterlin, Morgan,
    Switek, and Wang (2012). For a different view of Chinese migration, see
    Easterlin, Wang, and Wang (2017).

  16. Stevenson and Wolfers (2008).

  17. P. Singer (1981), Pinker (2011).

  18. For an analysis of the importance of freedom, see Sen (1999).

  19. Clearly freedom to speak your mind and to participate in polit-
    ical life spans this topic and the next.

  20. Inglehart and Klingemann (2000).

  21. Helliwell, Grover, and Wang (2014).

  22. Helliwell, Grover, and Wang (2014), table 10, column (6).

  23. Helliwell, Grover, and Wang (2014).

  24. Layard, Mayraz, and Nickell (2010).

  25. Wilkinson and Pickett (2009). They do not examine the rela-
    tionship between equality and life- satisfaction.

  26. Stevenson and Wolfers (2010), Blanchflower and Oswald (2004),
    Helliwell (2003), 351, and Clark and D’Ambrosio (2015). But for positive
    results see Morawetz (1977) and Schwarze and Härpfer (2007).

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