… working paper version of this chapter (Easterlin and O’Connor 2020) and (Easterlin 2017). …
O’Connor acknowledges financial support of the Observatoire de la Compétitivité, Ministère …

Psychological measures are gaining recognition as important determinants of labor
performance. This paper demonstrates that people reporting greater subjective well‐being (SWB) …

How was optimism related to mortality before the rise in “deaths of despair” that began in
the late 1990s? Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we show that as early as 1968 …

There is continual debate focusing on government’s role in determining the well-being of its
citizens. Should governments expand the generosity of welfare-state policies or reduce their …

Every country in Europe experienced an adverse impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on
life satisfaction, though on average, satisfaction with life in the summer of 2022 is about the …

In Europe, differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early
1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs—increasing …

While subjective well-being generally decreased in Europe during the Great Recession,
some countries fared better than others. We assess how this experience varied across …

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today. Immigrants may affect natives
through multiple channels, both economic and non-economic. For this reason, evidence …

The lowest level of reported happiness since the 1970s occurred in 2010, which was the
result of a negative long-term trend and the Great Recession. However, the Recession’s far-…

The resource curse is a topic studied intensively in both economics and political science. Much
of the focus is now on whether oil affects democratic institutions. We further the debate on …