http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/Sachs%20Writing/2012/World%20Happiness%20Report.pdf

				World Happiness Report Edited by John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs

				The intrductory text of the World Database of Happness: http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/hap_quer/hqi_fp.htm

				http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/yes-money-does-buy-happiness-6-lessons-from-the-newest-research-on-income-and-well-being/267016/

				http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2960

				http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/10/30/people-in-emerging-markets-catch-up-to-advanced-economies-in-life-satisfaction/

				Two 'components' of happiness are distinguished: hedonic level of affect (the degree to which pleasant affect dominates) and contentment (perceived realization of wants).

				Kahneman, Daniel and Krueger, Alan B. (2006). ‘Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Wellbeing’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20:1, pp. 3-24.

				Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_happiness.png

				http://fatknowledge.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/polls-wealth-and-happiness.html

				http://www.economist.com/node/9475891

				http://de.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1m39wp/united_nations_sustainable_development_solutions/

				http://de.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1p1nwq/happiness_across_the_uk_interactive_map_in/

				http://de.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1qwg0t/happiness_in_germany_900_x_600/

				Zum International Day of Happiness: Im Vergleich zum OECD-Schnitt sind Österreicher und Schweizer mit ihrem Leben überdurchschnittlich zufrieden. Weitere Infos unter: http://bit.ly/GRmxoA (S.270) Die eigenen Lebensbedingungen mit denen von Menschen aus 36 Ländern vergleichen: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/

				http://users.nber.org/~jwolfers/papers/HappinessInequality.pdf

				http://www.economist.com/node/9475891

				Land, Michalos, Sirgy (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research [ref]Land, Michalos, and Sirgy (ed.) (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Springer. [/ref]

				The Integrated European Value Survey / World Value Survey data is available online here. http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSIntegratedEVSWVSvariables.jsp?Idioma=I

				From: http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/10/30/people-in-emerging-markets-catch-up-to-advanced-economies-in-life-satisfaction/

				http://de.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/tuzsi/how_happy_are_we/

				Hier ist die Datei: Inglehart, Foa and Welzel (2008) - Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness - A Global Perspective (1981–2007) [ref]Inglehart, Foa, Peterson, and Welzel (2008) - Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007). In Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 4, 264--285. The paper can be freely downloaded from the 'World Value Survey Website' here. http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_107  [/ref]

				The Integrated European Value Survey / World Value Survey data is available online here. http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSIntegratedEVSWVSvariables.jsp?Idioma=I

				The paper can be freely downloaded from the 'World Value Survey Website' here. http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_107

					Changes in subjective well-being and sense of free choice - Inglehart, Welzel and Foa.png Hier ist die Datei: Inglehart, Foa and Welzel (2008) - Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness - A Global Perspective (1981–2007) [ref]Inglehart, Foa, Peterson, and Welzel (2008) - Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007). In Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 4, 264--285. The paper can be freely downloaded from the 'World Value Survey Website' here. http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_107  [/ref]

				The Integrated European Value Survey / World Value Survey data is available online here. http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSIntegratedEVSWVSvariables.jsp?Idioma=I

				The relationship between ncome and Happiness/Life Satisfaction appears to be less clear cut than for many other covariates of income and a famous result of the early literature on this relation was that there is no link.

				Easterlin restated the paradox in 2010 http://www.pnas.org/content/107/52/22463

				It is important to note that Easterlin is not saying that there is a relation between income and happiness across countries. He is only saying that the link is not existing through time. The very observation that there is a strong link across countries is why he speaks of a paradox - in the 2011 article he says: 'If there were no positive relation in the cross-section, there would be no paradox!'.

				My understanding is that Easterlin's critique is in part justified - and his detailed critique of some measurements is relevant for future research and careful analysis of past studies - but he does not refute the manifold evidence that has been gathered by now. He agrees with the literature that across countries there is a clear correlation between life satisfaction and income taking all the different studies - including Easterlin's together - it seems that across time there is less a paradox than Easterlin might have thought.

				And what we should learn from this is probably not that happiness and income are not rising together but rather that we should be critical of research that is built on datasets for which different surveys were connected and for which the questions asked differed.

					In DT hier: Stevenson & Wolfers (2008) Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox [ref] Stevenson B, Wolfers J (2008) - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox. Brookings Paper Econ Activ 2008 (Spring):1–87.[/ref] Data Source: Life in Nation surveys, 1958–2007. Note from the paper: The series in each of the four panels reports responses to a different life satisfaction question, and therefore comparisons should be made only within each panel. GDP per capita is at purchasing power parity in constant 2000 international dollars.

					Life Satisfaction and GDP per Capita over Time in Japan - Stevenson & Wolfers.png

				Source and notes: Veenhoven ( 1993 ) . An ordinary least squares regression is fi tted to the data; the coeffi cient of mean satisfaction on year is not statistically signifi cant)

				Land, Michalos, Sirgy (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research [ref]R.A. Easterlin and L. Angelescu - 'Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross-Sectional and Time Series Evidence' in Land, Michalos, and Sirgy (ed.) (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Springer. [/ref]

					Mean subjective well-being, Japan 1958–1987 - Easterlin in Land, Michalos, and Sirgy (ed.) (2011).png

					Oxford Slides Happiness - ohne Quelle!

					Gregory Clark (2007) - A Farewell to Alms - a brief economic history of the world [ref]The Source is Clark (2008) - A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton University Press. Data from Veenhoven, 2005, and Heston et al., 2006. [/ref]

				GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international $) from the World Bank here http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD

					ny.gdp.pcap.pp.kd_Indicator_en_excel_v2.xls

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				Total Population from the World Bank here – http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL

					sp.pop.totl_Indicator_en_excel_v2.xls

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					Positive Experience Index Scores Worldwide, 2013 – Gallup

				I have taken the “Positive Experience Index Scores” data from Gallup here. http://www.gallup.com/poll/169322/people-worldwide-reporting-lot-positive-emotions.aspx Worldwide, 2013

				Deaton in The Great Escape on National happiness and national income

				It is known that greater choice can mean that people are less happy with their choices but it seems as if the difficulties of choosing which dinner to have is weighing? smaller? than the security to have any.

				Daten zu Lebensunzufriedenheit WORLD VALUE SURVEY DATA only in a very few countries across the globe do most respondents suggest in polls that they are unhappy:

				The Integrated European Value Survey / World Value Survey data is available online here. http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSIntegratedEVSWVSvariables.jsp?Idioma=I

				TEXT Kenny darüber - sieht es problematisch

				Ridley on Happiness and Income growth - The Easterlin Paradox is not true

				(2011): World Values Survey data suggests this bigger global population is overwhelmingly content. In China and India, over three-quarters of the population claimed to be quite happy or very happy. In Brazil, it was 90 percent.

				During 2006, the Gallup Organization conducted a World Poll that used an identical questionnaire for national samples of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction and on health satisfaction and look at their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. The analysis confirms a number of earlier findings and also yields some new and different results. Average life satisfaction is strongly related to per capita national income. High-income countries have greater life-satisfaction than low-income countries. Each doubling of income is associated with almost a one-point increase in life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to 10 and, unlike most previous findings, the effect holds across the range of international incomes; if anything, it is slightly stronger among rich countries. Conditional on the level of national per capita income, the effects of economic growth on life satisfaction are negative, not positive as would be predicted by previous discussion and previous micro-based empirical evidence. Neither life satisfaction nor health satisfaction responds strongly to objective measures of health, such as life expectancy or the prevalence of HIV infection, so that neither provides a reliable indicator of population well-being over all domains, or even over health.

					Each Doubling of GDP is Associated with a Constant Increase in Life Satisfaction - Deaton.png

				Note: Each circle is a country, with diameter proportional to population. The scale on the x-axis is logarithmic. The middle line shows average life satisfaction for each level of per capita GDP while the outer two lines show the same thing, but for two age groups, ages 15 to 25—the upper line for most of the figure—and ages 60 and over—which is usually the lower line. GDP per capita in 2003 is measured in purchasing power parity chained dollars at 2000 prices.

				[ref]Deaton (2008) - Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll. In Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22, 2, 53--72.[/ref]

				Ist hier: Deaton 2008 - Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll The source is

					Within-Country and Between-Country Estimates of the Life Satisfaction–Income Gradient Gallup World Poll - Stevenson & Wolfers (2008).png

				In DT hier: Stevenson & Wolfers (2008) Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox [ref] Stevenson B, Wolfers J (2008) - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox. Brookings Paper Econ Activ 2008 (Spring):1–87.[/ref] Source of the data on subjective well-being is the Gallup World Poll, 2006. Note to the Graph from the paper: Each solid circle plots life satisfaction against GDP per capita for one of 131 developed and developing countries. The slope of the arrow represents the satisfaction-income gradient estimated for that country from a country-specific ordered probit of satisfaction on the log of annual real household income, controlling for gender, a quartic in age, and their interaction. Usable household income data were unavailable for eighteen countries. The dashed line represents the between-country satisfaction-income gradient estimated from an OLS regression of the satisfaction index on the logarithm of real GDP per capita. GDP per capita is at purchasing power parity in constant 2000 international dollars.

					Within-Country and Between-Country Estimates of the Life Satisfaction–Income Gradient 1999–2004 World Values Survey - Stevenson & Wolfers (2008).png

				In DT hier: Stevenson & Wolfers (2008) Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox [ref] Stevenson B, Wolfers J (2008) - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox. Brookings Paper Econ Activ 2008 (Spring):1–87.[/ref] Source of the data on life satisfaction used by the authors of the graph is the World Values Survey, 1999-2004 wave. Note to the Graph from the paper: Each solid circle plots life satisfaction against GDP per capita for one of sixty-nine developed and develop- ing countries; hollow squares denote samples that are not nationally representative. The slope of the arrow represents the satisfaction-income gradient estimated for that country from a country-specific ordered probit regression of satisfaction on the log of household income, controlling for gender, a quartic in age, and their interaction, as well as indicator variables for missing age or gender. Usable household income data were unavailable for eighteen countries. The dashed line represents the between-country satisfaction-income gradient estimated from an OLS regression of the satisfaction index on the logarithm of real GDP per capita. GDP per capita is at purchasing power parity in constant 2000 international dollars.

					Distribution of Estimates of the Within-Country Life Satisfaction–Income Gradient - Stevenson & Wolfers (2008).png

				In DT hier: Stevenson & Wolfers (2008) Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox [ref] Stevenson B, Wolfers J (2008) - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox. Brookings Paper Econ Activ 2008 (Spring):1–87.[/ref] Source of the data on subjective well-being is the Gallup World Poll, 2006. Note to the Graph from the paper: Figure plots the distribution of regression coefficients for 113 developed and developing countries from country-specific ordered probit regressions of satisfaction on log household income, controlling for gender, a quartic in age, and their interaction.

				Abstract: Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, further rises in income are not associated with further increases in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple datasets, multiple definitions of "basic needs" and multiple questions about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly log-linear and does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it.

					Oxford Scripts on Happiness - Abeler

					Abeler Oxford Lecture Slides on Happiness Ich denke es ist von Stevenson & Wolfers (2008) ???

				Source: From Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard, copyright © 2005 by Richard Layard. Used by permission of The Penguin Press, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and United Agents Ltd. (www.unitedagents.co.uk) on behalf of the author.

				Michael P. Todaro and Stephen C. Smith (2011) - Economic Development, 11th Edition. [ref]The source is Michael P. Todaro & Stephen C. Smith (2011) - Economic Development, 11th Edition. The Pearson Series in Economics. [/ref]

				Source: Sacks, Stevenson, and Wolfers 2010, 38. Note: The figure shows the central 90 percent of the income distribution for each country. A ladder score refers to an individual being shown a ladder that represents his or her life, with the top rung representing the best possible life and the bottom rung the worst possible life, and being asked to choose which rung he or she stands on. This figure shows, for the 25 largest countries, the lowest fit between individual satisfaction ladder scores and the log of household income, measured in the Gallup World Poll in 2002. The satisfaction data are shown both on their raw (0–10) scale on the left axis and as standardized variables on the right axis. We plot the lowest fit between the 10th and 90th percen- tiles of each country’s income distribution. Satisfaction is assessed using the ladder of life question.

				[ref]Nallari, Yusuf, Griffith, and Bhattacharya (2011) –Frontiers in Development Policy - A Primer on Emerging Issues. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. [/ref]

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					In DT hier: Stevenson & Wolfers (2008) Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox [ref] Stevenson B, Wolfers J (2008) - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox. Brookings Paper Econ Activ 2008 (Spring):1–87.[/ref] The sources of data for these graphs are Cantril (1951); Buchanan and Cantril (1953); Strunk (1950); Cantril (1965); Veenhoven (undated); Easterlin (1974, table 7); Maddison (2007). For more information on the shown correlations see the original paper. a. Well-being data are aggregated into an index by running an ordered probit regression of happiness or satisfaction on country fixed effects separately for each survey. Income data were extracted from Maddison (2007) and reflect estimates of real GDP per capita at purchasing power parity in 1990 U.S. dollars. Dashed lines are fitted from OLS regressions of this well-being index on log GDP. Country abbreviations in all figures are standard ISO country codes. b. Data were extracted from Cantril (1951), who reports on polls by four Gallup affiliates. Countries included are Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Respondents were asked, “In general, how happy would you say you are—very happy, fairly happy, or not very happy?” c. Data were extracted from Buchanan and Cantril (1953), reporting on a UNESCO study of “Tensions Affecting International Understanding.” Countries included are Australia, France, Germany. Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Respondents were asked, “How satisfied are you with the way you are getting on now?—very, all right, or dissatisfied?” d. Data were drawn from Strunk (1950). Countries included are Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Respondents were asked the same question as in note b. e. Data were extracted from tabulations by Cantril (1965), as reported in Veenhoven (undated). Countries include Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Germany, India, Japan, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, the United States, and Yugoslavia; data from the Philippines are missing. Data for the United States were tabulated from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. Surveys were run from 1957 to 1963 using Cantril’s “Self-Anchoring Striving Scale,” which begins by probing about the best and worst possible futures and then shows a picture of a ten-step ladder and asks, “Here is a picture of a ladder. Suppose that we say the top of the ladder [pointing] represents the best possible life for you and the bottom [pointing] represents the worst possible life for you. Where on the ladder [moving finger rapidly up and down ladder] do you feel you personally stand at the present time?” f. Data were extracted from Easterlin (1974, table 7), who reported cross-tabulations for France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United Kingdom from the World Survey III and added data for the United States from the October 1966 AIPO poll and for Japan from the 1958 survey of Japanese national character. Respondents were asked the same question as in note b. Easterlin reports only the proportion “not very happy” for Japan; hence we infer the well-being index based only on the lower cutpoint of the ordered probit regression run on the eight other countries.

					Early Cross-Country Surveys of Subjective Well-Being (different sample 1946-1965) - Stevenson & Wolfers (2008).png

				Well-being index is based on reported life satisfaction and happiness, using mean results from all available surveys conducted 1995–2007 (cubic curve plotted; r^2 = 5.62). PPP=purchasing power parity estimates.

					T Subjective well-being (SWB), per capita gross domestic product (GDP), and different types of societies - Inglehart, Welzel and Foa.png Hier ist die Datei: Inglehart, Foa and Welzel (2008) - Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness - A Global Perspective (1981–2007) [ref]Inglehart, Foa, Peterson, and Welzel (2008) - Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007). In Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 4, 264--285. The paper can be freely downloaded from the 'World Value Survey Website' here. http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_107 [/ref]

				The Integrated European Value Survey / World Value Survey data is available online here. http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSIntegratedEVSWVSvariables.jsp?Idioma=I

					My Source: http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2008/04/17/does-higher-income-increases-happiness Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers - Wharton School UPenn In DT hier: Stevenson & Wolfers (2008) Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox [ref] Stevenson B, Wolfers J (2008) - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox. Brookings Paper Econ Activ 2008 (Spring):1–87.[/ref]

				Land, Michalos, Sirgy (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research [ref]Land, Michalos, and Sirgy (ed.) (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Springer. [/ref]

				http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/07/129703291/new-study-high-incomes-don-t-bring-you-happiness

					My Source: http://ftp.iza.org/dp2840.pdf Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles Andrew E. Clark Paul Frijters Michael Shields DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute for the Study of Labor June 2007 3 Source: World Database of Happiness and Penn World Tables. Happiness is the average reply to the following question: ‘Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are…?’ The responses are coded as (3) Very Happy, (2) Pretty Happy, and (1) Not too Happy. Happiness data are drawn from the General Social Survey.

					My Source: http://ftp.iza.org/dp2840.pdf Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles Andrew E. Clark Paul Frijters Michael Shields DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute for the Study of Labor June 2007 4 Source: World Database of Happiness. Happiness is the average reply to the following question: ‘On the whole how satisfied are you with the life you lead’. The responses are coded as (4) Very Satisfied, (3) Fairly Satisfied, (2) Not Very Satisfied, and (1) Not at all Satisfied. Life satisfaction data are drawn from the Eurobarometer Survey.

					My Source: http://ftp.iza.org/dp2840.pdf Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles Andrew E. Clark Paul Frijters Michael Shields DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute for the Study of Labor June 2007 5 Source: Frijters et al. (2004a). Data are drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). Respondents are asked: ‘How satisfied are you at present with your life, all things considered?’ The responses run from 0 (completely dissatisfied) to 10 (completely satisfied).

				Simon (1996) - The State of Humanity Figure 1.2 Ratings of own life, country, and economy, 1959-89 Note: No survey questions were asked after 1989. Source: Seymour and Schneider, 1983, pp. 142, 143; data for 1980s courtesy of Cambridge Reports lnternati onal. Die Veröffentlichung konnte ich in den References des Buches nicht finden.

					Happiness from Jeffrey Sachs The Price of Civilization.jpg

				The Enlightened Economist | Coyle (2012) - Happiness? Bah, humbug! One of the things that bugs me about the happiness business is that the campaign is based on a statistical error, one that has now been pointed out by many people (including Paul Ormerod, and Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, who have essays in the IEA volume, and again this week by Stefan Bergheim of the Zentrum für gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt (there’s a link to his slides here). The origin of the idea that there’s no link between the level of GDP and happiness is Richard Easterlin’s original observation that although within any country rich people reported themselves to be happier than poor people, and average happiness levels were higher in rich countries than poor ones, happiness did not keep pace with GDP in any individual country over time. Therefore, many people concluded, economic growth doesn’t bring happiness. Forget growth! Forget economics! But happiness is reported on an index running from 1 to 3 or 1 to 10 and can never get above the top of that scale. GDP can increase without limit. There will never be a statistical correlation between the two over time just because of the way the statistics are constructed. The absence of correlation between the two time series therefore has no economic meaning. Look instead at GDP growth (not its level), and this is correlated with happiness.

				Diesen Punkt habe ich auch weiter unten im Aufsatz von McCloskey

					My Source: HDR_2013 The Rise of the South - Human Progress in a Diverse World (EN_complete) Original Source:

					HDI and Life Satisfaction.xlsx

				Land, Michalos, Sirgy (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research [ref]Land, Michalos, and Sirgy (ed.) (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Springer. [/ref]

					Source: Inglehart & Welzel (2005) - Modernization, Cultural change democracy The human Development Sequence [ref]Inglehart & Welzel (2005) - *Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence*. Cambridge University Press. [/ref]

					Abeler Oxford Slide

				http://www.cepremap.fr/depot/docweb/docweb0803.pdf

				Andrew E. Clark Ed Diener Yannis Georgellis Richard E. Lucas - Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis*

					Abeler Oxford Slide

				http://www.cepremap.fr/depot/docweb/docweb0803.pdf

				Andrew E. Clark Ed Diener Yannis Georgellis Richard E. Lucas - Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis*

					Abeler Oxford Slide

				http://de.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/224lmp/relationship_between_age_and_happiness_in/

				http://de.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2a1s4j/yes_money_does_buy_happiness/

				From: http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/10/30/people-in-emerging-markets-catch-up-to-advanced-economies-in-life-satisfaction/

				Land, Michalos, Sirgy (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research [ref]Land, Michalos, and Sirgy (ed.) (2011) - Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Springer. [/ref]

				Definition

				Measurement

				A major distinction should be made between on the one hand positive or pleasant emotions (happiness) and on the other hand well-being and life-satisfaction. The first is concerned with the experience of positive emotions at any given time, the second is concerned with rather long-term evaluation of one's own life - it is thus closer to view that philosophers and religious thinkers often take and normative concepts of the good life matter more for this self-assesment than momentary emotions.

				Measurement of the two components of the experience of one's own life is typically done by interviews and surveys.

				Problems of Happiness Assessments

				Our main analysis of the distribution of happiness among and within nations continues to be based on individual life evaluations, roughly 1,000 per year in each of more than 150 countries, as measured by answers to the Cantril ladder question: “Please imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?” We will, as usual, present the average life evaluation scores for each country, in this report based on averages from the surveys conducted in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

				This data is based on roughly 1,000 individual life evaluations per year in each of the more than 150 countries.

				Life evaluation was measured by the individual answers to the Cantril ladder question: “Please imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?”

				World Happiness Report 2016 Vol I.pdf

				(13) Conclusions Regarding Cross-Group Differences in Happiness Depend on Difficulty of Reaching Respondents Ori Heffetz and Matthew Rabin A growing literature explores differences in subjective well-being across demographic groups, often relying on surveys with high nonresponse rates. By using the reported number of call attempts made to participants in the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers, we show that comparisons among easy-to-reach respondents differ from comparisons among hard-to-reach ones. Notably, easy-to-reach women are happier than easy-to-reach men, but hard-to-reach men are happier than hard-to-reach women, and conclusions of a survey could reverse with more attempted calls. Better alternatives to comparing group sample averages might include putting greater weight on hard-to-reach respondents or even extrapolating trends in responses. Full-Text Access | Supplementary Materials

				[ref]The source is Inglehart & Welzel (2010) - Changing Mass Priorities: The Link between Modernization and Democracy. Reflections, June 2010, Vol. 8/No. 2. The paper is online here. http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/publication_587/files/ChangingMassPriorities.pdf [/ref]

				The Gallup Organization describes their survey, their translations, data coverage and statistical validity here. http://www.gallup.com/strategicconsulting/156923/worldwide-research-methodology.aspx

					Positive Experience Index Scores Worldwide, 2013 – Gallup

				I have taken the “Positive Experience Index Scores” data from Gallup here. http://www.gallup.com/poll/169322/people-worldwide-reporting-lot-positive-emotions.aspx Worldwide, 2013

					HR-V1_web.pdf

					Online-data-for-chapter-2-whr-2016.xlsx

				http://worldhappiness.report/