The Happy Few: Cross-Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life Satisfaction
By Christian Bjørnskov. 2003
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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- From Materialist to Post-Materialist Happiness? National Affluence and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Cross-National Perspective (2010, background): “considerable efforts have been made to find out what distinguishes the happiest from the unhappiest places ( Bjornskov 2003; Diener et al. 1995; Veenhoven 1999; Vemuri and Constanza 2006).”
- Internet Use and Social Capital: The Strength of Virtual Ties (2010, unknown): “2004; Beugelsdijk and Schaik 2005), as well as with international trade, macroeconomic stability, political and civic involvement, crime prevention, health and happiness (Bjornskov 2003; Berggren and Jordahl 2006).”
- SOCIAL CAPITAL RENEWAL AND THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA (2008, background): “On the relationship between social capital and trade, stability, political and civic involvement, crime, health and happiness see, for example, Bjornskov (2003) and Berggren and Jordahl (2006).”
- Why does income growth fail to make us happier?: Searching for the treadmills behind the paradox of happiness (2006, background): “For instance, they have a tendency to neglect the importance of social relations, although their future happiness may crucially depend on it (Bjørnskov, 2003; Lane, 2000, Chapter 6).”
- The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective (2005, background): “2 See for example Knack and Keefer (1997), La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny (1997), Zak and Knack (2001), Uslaner (2002), Beugelsdijk and van Schaik (2001), Bjørnskov (2003).”
- Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison (2007, unknown): “…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).”
- How Education Enhances Happiness: Comparison of Mediating Factors in Four East Asian Countries (2012, background): “Existing studies show that income is more a crucial factor for happiness or life satisfaction in poorer countries than in more affluent societies (Ferrer-i-Carbonell 2005; Bjornskov 2003).”
- Beyond Money (2004, background): “Bj rnskov (2003) found that income equality correlates negatively with national wellbeing, largely because in Latin American nations income is distributed unequally and the people are satisfied.”
- International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “At the level of correlation, it has been argued that happy countries have low inequality (Alesina, Di Tella, & MacCulloch, 2004; Winkelmann & Winkelmann, 2010), high social capital and strong friendship networks (Bjornskov, 2003; Bjornskov, Dreher, & Fischer, 2008; Vermuri & Constanza, 2006), low un”