World happiness report

By John F. Helliwell, R. Layard, J. Sachs. 2012

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Citations in the corpus

• The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter Sentiment and Expression, Demographics, and Objective Characteristics of Place (2013, background): “A similar result showing greater happiness and a relative abundance of food-related words in tweets made by users who regularly travel large distances (as would be the case for many of the tweets emanating from Hawaii) has been reported in [3].”
• Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy (2013, unknown): “        50       FOOTNOTES                                                                                                                     1  See  e.g.,  Helliwell  et  al  2012;  Stiglitz,  Sen,  and  Fitoussi  2008   2  Fuchs  1983,  14;  McCloskey  1983,  514   3  See  also  Frey  and…”
• Engaging with Natural Beauty May Be Related to Well-Being Because It Connects People to Nature: Evidence from Three Cultures (2017, unknown): “Among these countries, not only do ideas, practices, and values differ, so do levels of self-reported happiness: Canada often ranks as one of the happiest nations in the world, while Russia and Japan tend to rank considerably lower (e.g., Helliwell, Layard, & Sachs, 2015).”
• Inequality in China: An Overview (2013, unknown): “China does not rank high in various recent international rankings reported in the World Happiness Report , being in the 27 th percentile for quality of life, the 28 th percentile for life satisfaction, and the 30 th percentile for happiness (Helliwell, Layard, and Sachs 2012: figures 2.3, 2.5, 2.9).”
• Eastern Conceptualizations of Happiness: Fundamental Differences with Western Views (2013, unknown): “on mental well-being launched by western researchers over the last decades have been based on hedonistic theory, using subjective well-being measures (e.g., Diener et al. 2010; Helliwell et al. 2012; Inglehart 2009).”
• Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence (2013, unknown): “The term “subjective well-being” encompasses a variety of measures of feelings of well-being – happiness, life satisfaction, ladder-of-life – which are treated here as interchangeable (cf. Easterlin 2010, pp. 8-9, 103-104, Helliwell, Layard, and Sachs 2012, ch.2).”