Jacqueline Smith Zweig

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that the long term nil relationship between happiness and income holds also for a number of developing countries, the eastern European countries transitioning from socialism to capitalism, and an even wider sample of developed countries than previously studied, and that in the short-term in all three groups of countries, Happiness and income go together.

TL;DR: This article found that at low levels of economic development there are substantial gaps favoring urban over rural areas in income, education, and occupational structure, and consequently a large excess of urban life satisfaction, despite important urban problems of pollution, congestion, and the like.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Gallup World Poll to estimate differences in happiness between men and women in 73 countries through country-specific ordinary least squares regressions, and examined whether the magnitude of the female-male happiness gap can be explained by country characteristics, such as economic development, religion, or women's rights.

TL;DR: This article showed that the long-term nil relationship between happiness and income holds also for a number of developing countries, the eastern European countries transitioning from socialism to capitalism, and an even wider sample of developed countries than previously studied.

TL;DR: The authors showed that the long-term nil relationship between happiness and income holds also for a number of developing countries, the eastern European countries transitioning from socialism to capitalism, and an even wider sample of developed countries than previously studied.