by Morris Altman One of the early key empirical findings of the happiness literature is that at higher levels of per capita real income there appears to be diminishing returns to income at least with regards to marginal changes in ‘happiness’ measured by various survey instruments. Although these results have been…
A NOTE ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND GDP
by Wim Heijman, Johan van Ophem and Job van Logtestijn This research note compares the results of the measurement of the relationship between happiness and GDP in the EU based upon unweighted data with the results based upon weighted data. The data are weighted in order to correct for the different…
TRANSITION ECONOMY AND HAPPINESS THE CZECH REPUBLIC COMPARED WITH THE NETHERLANDS IN THE 1990- 2004 PERIOD
by JAC van Ophem, V. Kohout and W.J.M. Heijman The paper deals with the subject Transition economy and happiness – a case study of the Czech Republic in a comparison with The Netherlands in the 1990- 2004 period. The paper addresses the following two questions: 1. How has the level of…