Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox

By R. Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology

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Did the Decline in Social Connections Depress Americans’ Happiness? (2013, methodology): “The question we try to answer in this section is: how much of the change in happiness over time is predicted by each variable and by each group of variables? Basically, our empirical strategy follows the one put forward by Di Tella and MacCulloch (2008a). Firstly, we run a new regression with the sa”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, unknown): “Probably the most detailed attempt at tackling this research question is Di Tella and MacCulloch (2005a) using 23 years of Eurobarometer data and 28 years of American GSS data.”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, methodology): “Probably the most detailed attempt at tackling this research question is Di Tella and MacCulloch (2005) using 23 years of Eurobarometer data and 28 years of American GSS data.”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “Another psychological factor that is of importance for SWB is uncertainty (Di Tella & MacCulloch, 2008), which could for example be affected by the legal system and monetary stability.”
Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe (2012, background): “Previous analyses that have analyzed the role of SO2 concentrations on life satisfaction (e.g., Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2008, Luechinger, 2009, 2010, Menz and Welsch 2012) find that pollution negatively affects subjective well-being, but they use country level data or concentrate on one country…”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “The influence of these “omitted variables” could hide the positive influence of GDP growth on subjective wellbeing in econometric estimates (see Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2008).”
The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter Sentiment and Expression, Demographics, and Objective Characteristics of Place (2013, background): “The relationship between wealth and happiness is still highly debated; recent works by Stevenson and Wolfers [31] claim to show a direct correlation between gross domestic product and subjective well-being across countries, while Di Tella and MacCulloch [32] in the same year argue that the Easterlin”
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services: A Review of Frameworks (2014, background): “The insufficiency of income as an indicator of well-being has led to an expansion of utility functions to include non-traditional subjective parameters (Di Tella and MacCulloch 2006, 2008).”
International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “…high levels of democracy and democratic participation (Frey & Stutzer, 2000; Helliwell & Huang, 2008), high trust (Hudson, 2006), strong welfare states and public spending (Di Tella et al., 2003; Kotakorpi & Laamen, 2010; Pacek & Radcliff, 2008), and low pollution (Di Tella & MacCulloch, 2008).”
Crime, fear and subjective well-being: How victimization and street crime affect fear and life satisfaction (2013, background): “At a higher level of aggregation, Di Tella and MacCulloch (2008) show that the rate of serious assaults at the national level negatively impacts happiness and life satisfaction in Europe and the USA.”
Deep and persistent disadvantage in Australia (2013, background): “For example, work by Di Tella and MacCulloch (2008) suggests that while the rich half of European nations fully adapt to higher levels of per capita income, this process of habituation can still take over five years.”
Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being? (2017, background): “…in each year in many developing countries, the transitory effects may persist and eventually become permanent.6 However, there are few studies evaluating 2 One exception is Di Tella and MacCulloch (2008), which shows that sulfur oxide emissions may serve as one plausible explanation to the paradox.”