“..."What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people's well-being? How would policy change if well-being was the main objective? The Origins of...”

“...•We show that psychological resilience in adulthood is determined in adolescence.•Unemployment lowers wellbeing more for those with poor father-child...”

“...This article provides a guide for young economists wishing to conduct well‐being research. It describes the different data sources commonly used in the study...”

“...Using a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of the British people, this paper explores how different areas of a person's life evolved before and...”

“...The current study provides new empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on health-related behaviors by exploiting historical changes in the...”

“...•We use survey data to estimate a simultaneous equations model of life satisfaction.•The data used are representative of populations in Australia and the...”

“...Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non-pecuniary costs of...”

“...Policy makers who care about well-being need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and...”

“...Does income rank matter more for well-being in more unequal countries? Using more than 160,000 observations from 24 countries worldwide, we replicate previous...”

“...Personality is the strongest and most consistent cross-sectional predictor of high subjective well-being. Less predictive economic factors, such as higher...”