How's Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being

By John F. Helliwell. 2003

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience (2014, positive): “, 2013); • Connectedness (or loneliness/isolation) and health among the elderly; given demographic trends, what will more isolation mean? ( Helliwell, 2002); • Quality dimension of child care arrangements; experiences of parents at work with or without subsidies and/or child care, and with or withou”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, neutral): “…happiness’ using very large samples and cross-time cross-country models that control for country fixed-effects, have shown that happiness co-moves with macroeconomic variables including GDP, GDP growth and inflation (see, for example, Di Tella et al., 2003; Helliwell, 2003; Alesina et al., 2004).”
Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Social Welfare: A Utilitarian Critique (2013, positive): “…that the relationship between national wealth and national well-being is asymptotic; as a country moves up the prosperity ladder, additional increases in national wealth tend to buy less and less national happiness (Diener & Biswas-Diener, 2002; Frey & Stutzer, 2002; Helliwell, 2003; Schyns, 2003).”
Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison (2007, positive): “…Whiteley, 2000; Zak & Knack, 2001; Beugelsdijk et al., 2004), institutional development and quality (Helliwell & Putnam, 1995; la Porta et al., 1997; Rice & Sumberg, 1997; Knack, 2002), corruption (Uslaner, 2002) and subjective life satisfaction (Uslaner, 2002; Bjørnskov, 2003; Helliwell, 2003).”
Education as a Positional Good: A Life Satisfaction Approach (2011, background): “Moreover, the estimates for education are often responsive to different specifications and tend to lose significance when other variables are controlled for, which suggests that the positive impact of education on individual wellbeing could act through indirect channels such as income or health (Har”
Childrens', parents', and teachers' perceptions of child wellbeing (2007, background): “The concept of child wellbeing is complex and multifaceted ( Helliwell, 2003 ).”
Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings (2009, background): “…reason is that the objective indicators (e.g. GDP, wealth, consumption, crime rate, education) tend to be only relatively weakly associated with people’s experiences, as measured by happiness or life satisfaction (Easterlin 2001; Donovan and Halpern 2002; Helliwell 2003; Helliwell and Putnam 2005).”
The Dark Side of Chinese Growth: Declining Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Economic Boom (2015, background): “The literature documents that social capital (SC) is an important ingredient of people’s well-being (Helliwell, 2003, 2008; Uhlaner, 1989).”
Social Capital and Subjective Wellbeing in Europe: A New Approach on Social Capital (2012, neutral): “…Putnam (2000) evidenced a decline in social capital across the United States and this apparent decline motivated several studies on the role of social relationships and social capital in explaining the happiness paradox (Helliwell 2003; Helliwell and Putnam 2004; Bartolini et al. 2008; Pugno 2009).”
The impact of economic, social and environmental factors on trip satisfaction and the likelihood of visitors returning (2016, background): “…2012) Relationship found by (Abdallah, Thompson, & Marks, 2008; Alesina et al., 2004; Arifwidodo & Perera, 2011; Brereton et al., 2008; Cuñado & de Gracia, 2013; Di Tella et al., 2003; Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Gowdy, 2007; Frey & Stutzer, 2000, 2002; Helliwell, 2003; Stanca, 2009; Welsch, 2007b).”
Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach (2010, neutral): “Effects are consistently negative across a wide range of studies (e.g., Clark and Oswald, 1994; Di Tella et al., 2001; Helliwell, 2003).”
The role of human, social, built, and natural capital in explaining life satisfaction at the country level: Toward a National Well-Being Index (NWI) (2006, background): “…have focused on cultural differences in the acceptance of positive and negative emotion, income, individualism, human rights, societal equality, political stability, and interpersonal trust (Diener and Suh, 1999; Diener et al., 1995a,b; Welsch, 2002; Cummins, 1998; Helliwell, 2003; Oswald, 1997).”
Building Financial Satisfaction (2006, background): “Equally, a dummy variable to control for the level of social participation is entered to test whether this major social interaction has a positive impact on individual financial satisfaction since there is a large association between social engagement and reported happiness (Donovan, Halpern and Sar”