The presenter’s study: (1) investigated the underpinnings for a drive in the search for a better quality of life; (2) formulated a basis for a realistic state of happiness; (3) investigated an overview of ICHPER·SD through examining its history in 4 periods: (a) from the founding in 1958 to 1991 as the first segment; (b) from 1991 to 2001 as the 2 segment; (c) from 2003 to 2011 as the 3 segment...

The concept of happiness has attracted the attention economists in recent years. Happiness/life satisfaction is essential for producers to analyze how consumers are satisfied with their goods and services at micro-level. Taken into account level happiness, governments might socio-economic situation country macro level. This study examines economics factors Uzbekistan. Ordered logit model used e...

Why unemployment has heterogeneous effects on subjective well-being remains unexplained. Using German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) data, I find that both subjective and objective income measures mediate the negative effects of unemployment and explain its heterogeneous effects on happiness. This finding suggests that the root cause of the negative effects of unemployment is pecuniary. Policy im...

Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend? There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for ‘children’ who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due...

this paper aim to study effect of women's employment on family stability, compare dual-worker family with single-worker family. statistical population of quantitative cross-sectional survey was married in tehran. selected 1736 samples and was analyzed. multi-stage cluster sampling method was used and due to the different economic and social classes of people, selected 50 domains in tehran....

What, if anything, are the implications of the happiness economics literature on competition policy? This Article first examines whether competition policy should promote (or at least not impede) citizens' opportunities to increase well-being. It next surveys the happiness literature on five key issues: (i) What constitutes well-being; (ii) How do you measure well-being; (iii) What increases we...

Whether relative income or absolute income could affect subjective well-being has been a bone of contention for years. Life satisfaction and the relative frequency of positive and negative emotions are parts of subjective well-being. According to the prospect theory, hedonic adaptation helps to explain why positive emotion is often so hard to be maintained, and negative emotion wouldn't be easy...

In the United States happiness rises slightly, on average, from ages 18 to midlife, and declines slowly thereafter. This pattern for the total population is the net result of disparate trends in the satisfaction people get from various life domains: their Wnancial situation, family life, health, and work. The slight rise in happiness through midlife is due chieXy to growing satisfaction with on...