Apparent quality-of-life in nations : how long and happy people live

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Review of HDI Critiques and Potential Improvements (2010, background): “Veenhoven (2005) wrote " There are two ways to assess how well people live.”
Capability and Happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links (2010, background): “Improvement of physical health in nations tends to be paralleled by a rise in happiness (Veenhoven 2005a) and this is an indication of a causal effect.”
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number (2010, unknown): “If we might ever reach the maximum of average happiness, there is still the possibility to extend its duration and create more happy life years for a greater number (Veenhoven, 2005).”
Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin (2006, methodology): “1 This estimate is based on average scores reported in the World Database of Happiness, section 'Distributional Findings in Nations (Veenhoven 2005) 2 When happiness has been assessed in more than one survey in the same year, we take the average.”
Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales (2013, background): “1995), political freedom (Veenhoven 2005), and lower levels of corruption (Oishi 2012; Oishi and Roth”
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness (2014, background): “If so, economic growth will still result in a rising number of happy life years for individuals (Veenhoven 2005).”