Francesco Sarracino

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between changes in social capital and subjective well-being in western Europe considering 11 different countries and found that social capital trend can help to explain subjective wellbeing trend.

TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel analysis of harmonized data composed of the World Values Survey, the European Values Study, and macro-level indicators of economic growth and income inequality for 46 countries, observed from 1981 to 2012, showed that in the long run economic growth improves subjective well-being when social trust does not decline and when income inequality reduces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the link between subjective well-being and productivity at the aggregate level, using a matched dataset from surveys and official statistics, was studied. And the results confirmed the evidence of a positive association between the variables of interest found at the individual and firm level, and support the view that promoting subjective wellbeing is not only desirable per se, but it is conducive to higher productivity and improved countries' economic performances.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors identified predictors of the trend in life satisfaction in China during 1990-2007 using data from the World Values Survey, and they are strictly connected to the increasing orientation of Chinese people toward materialistic values.

TL;DR: In this article, the cross-country comparability of a happiness equation including proxies of social capital and relational goods was evaluated in two extremely opposite groups of countries: the richest and the poorest ones.