Happiness around the world: the paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires
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| adam_text | Titel: Happiness around the world
Autor: Graham, Carol
Jahr: 2009
CONTENTS
List of Figures xiv
List of Tables xv
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction i
CHAPTER I
The Economics of Happiness 6
The Approach 8
The Easterlin Paradox 12
Selected Applications of Happiness Economics 16
Policy Implications 20
CHAPTER 2
The Happiness and Income D«bate: Substance,
Methodology, and the Easterlin Paradox 24
Question Framing Issues 28
Country Selection Issues 39
Conclusions 41
Appendix 2.1 46
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 3
The Determinants of Happiness around the World 47
Comparing Latin America, Russia, and the OECD 51
A Bird s Eye View of Happiness in Transition: Central Asia, Cuba,
and Eastern Europe 57
Happiness in Africa 66
Happiness in Afghanistan: Insights on Human Well-Being in the
midst of Turmoil 74
Conclusions 84
CHAPTER 4
Does Happiness Matter? 88
Russia in the 1990s 92
Changes in Happiness in Russia, 1995?2000 95
Does Happiness Matter to Future Outcomes? 101
Conclusions 113
CHAPTER 5
Happiness and Health across Countries and Cultures 116
Happiness and Health 118
Variance in the Health-Happiness Relationship: The Example
of Obesity 124
Poverty, Health, and Happiness 129
Inequality 132
How Different Illnesses Affect Your Life: Some Evidence from
Well-Being Surveys and EQ-5D Scores for Latin America 133
Relevance to Policy? 142
CHAPTER 6
Economic Growth, Crises, Inequality, and More 145
Economic Growth: An Unhappy Paradox 146
The Happy Peasants and Frustrated Achievers 151
XII
CONTENTS
The Aspirations Paradox
Relative Incomes and Inequality?Part of the Paradox?
Much Unhappier than Growth: Financial Crises and Well-Being
The Misery Index: Inflation versus Unemployment
Conclusions
CHAPTER 7
Adapting to Good and Bad Fortune: How Friends, Freedom,
Crime, and Corruption affect Happiness
Social Capital and Friendships
Political Freedom, Political Participation, and Happiness
Adapting to Bad Equilibrium: Crime and Corruption
Conclusions
CHAPTER 8
Happiness around the World: Lessons?and
Questions?for Policy
Treading?Carefully?in the Policy Arena
Happiness and Policy Going Forward
References 232
Index 241
XIII
LIST OF FIGURES
i.i Happiness and income per capita, 1990s *3
2.1 Evaluated well-being and net effect 37
3.1 Happiness by age level (Latin America, 2000) 5°
5.1 Millennium Preston curve: Life expectancy versus GDP I2°
5.2 Obesity and unhappiness I2
5.3 Income equivalences of health conditions in EQ-5D
(in monthly incomes; comparison income: US$ 93.7 PPP) 138
6.1 The relationship between satisfaction and economic
growth 147
6.2 A tale of two countries?comparing a rich and a poor
person in Honduras and Chile 163
6.3 Happiness in Latin America over time 167
64 Crisis and happiness I7I
7.1 Value of food security, friends, and other variables 197
LIST OF TABLES
2.1 Question phrasing?income and happiness across and
within Latin American countries
3.1 Happiness in the US, 1972-1998
3.2 Happiness in Latin America, 2001
3.3 Happiness in Russia, 2000
3.4 Happiness in Central Asia
3.5 Poverty and optimism in Africa and Latin America
3.6 Happiness in Afghanistan
4.1 The correlates of happiness, Russia, 1995 and 2000
4.2 First difference regression?happiness in Russia
4.3 The effects of happiness on income in Russia, 1995?2000
4^ Effect of perceptions variables on future income in Russia,
1995?2000
4.5 The effects of happiness on marriage status, employment,
and health
4.6 Drinking, smoking, and happiness
4.7 Effects of happiness on smoking and drinking
LIST OF TABLES
5.1 Happiness and health 119
5.2 Does obesity cause depression or the other way around?
Obesity and depression correlations 128
5.3 Life satisfaction costs of EQ-5D components 137
5.4 Friendships and health 141
6.1 The paradox of unhappy growth 148
6.2 Happiness immune to country-level economic growth? 150
6.3 Relative incomes and satisfaction domains 160
6.4 Average versus relative wealth 162
6.5 Satisfaction with, and support for, market policies and
democracy (Latin America 2002) 168
6.6 Happiness and regional unemployment rates in Russia 177
6.7a Cost of unemployment 182
6.7b Fear of unemployment 183
7.1 Correlates of pro-market attitudes 196
7.2 Happiness, market, and democracy preferences 198
7.3 Democracy: preferences and satisfaction 199
7.4 Effects of crime and corruption on happiness in Latin America 207
7.5 Costs of crime victimization in Africa. 209
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