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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
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Abstract 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 happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal conclusio... view more
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 happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal conclusion from a time-series study of 10 Northern, Western, and Southern European countries with the requisite data. In the present study, cross-section analysis of recent data gives a misleading impression that economic growth, social capital, and/or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the long-term, time-series data, these variables have no relation to happiness.... view less
Keywords
EVS; economic growth; happiness; satisfaction with life; welfare; social capital
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
welfare programs; European Values Study Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (EVS 1981-2008) (ZA4804 v3.0.0); European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017) (ZA7500 v3.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-4
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 119 (2022) 37
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210639119
ISSN
1091-6490
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0