Krzysztof Zagórski
Krzysztof Zagórski
This paper discusses the relations between economic development, family income, and happiness in post-communist Poland from the point of view of Inglehart's theory of modernization. The happiness is understood as satisfaction with income an...
College Education and Social Trust: An Evidence-Based Study on the Causal Mechanisms [0.03%]
基于实证的研究高校教育与社会信任的因果机制分析
Jian Huang,Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink,Wim Groot
Jian Huang
This paper examines the influence of college education on social trust at the individual level. Based on the literature of trust and social trust, we hypothesize that life experience/development since adulthood and perceptions of cultural/s...
National Income and Income Inequality, Family Affluence and Life Satisfaction Among 13 year Old Boys and Girls: A Multilevel Study in 35 Countries [0.03%]
基于35个国家的多层研究：民族收入及收入不平等、家庭富裕程度对13岁男孩和女孩生活满意度的影响
Kate Ann Levin,Torbjorn Torsheim,Wilma Vollebergh et al.
Kate Ann Levin et al.
Adolescence is a critical period where many patterns of health and health behaviour are formed. The objective of this study was to investigate cross-national variation in the relationship between family affluence and adolescent life satisfa...
The Volunteer Satisfaction Index: A Validation Study in the Chinese Cultural Context [0.03%]
中国语境下的志愿者满意度指数研究
Lok Ping Wong,Wing Hong Chui,Yan Yuen Kwok
Lok Ping Wong
Using a Hong Kong-sourced sample of 261 participants, this study set out to validate the Volunteer Satisfaction Index (VSI) in the Chinese cultural context and to evaluate its psychometric properties. The VSI was originally developed by Gal...
Jeffrey James
Jeffrey James
This paper studies the distribution of computer use in a comparison between two of the most dominant suppliers of low-cost computers for education in developing countries (partly because they involve diametrically opposite ways of tackling ...
W M Kalmijn,L R Arends,R Veenhoven
W M Kalmijn
The Happiness Scale Interval Study deals with survey questions on happiness, using verbal response options, such as 'very happy' and 'pretty happy'. The aim is to estimate what degrees of happiness are denoted by such terms in different que...
Empirical Research on Factors Related to the Subjective Well-Being of Chinese Urban Residents [0.03%]
中国城市居民主观幸福感的影响因素研究——基于幸福感三元理论模型的经验分析
Peigang Wang,Tyler J Vanderweele
Peigang Wang
Data from the China General Social Survey are used in order to investigate the factors that are related to the subjective well-being of Chinese urban residents. Factors predicting higher subjective well-being include female gender, high-inc...
Government and Happiness in 130 Nations: Good Governance Fosters Higher Level and More Equality of Happiness [0.03%]
政府与幸福：在130个国家里良好的治理促进较高层次的幸福感及更多的幸福感均等化
J C Ott
J C Ott
There are substantial differences in happiness in nations. Average happiness on scale 0-10 ranges in 2006 from 3.24 in Togo to 8.00 in Denmark and the inequality of happiness, as measured by the standard deviation, ranges from 0.85 in Laos ...
Ramzi Mabsout
Ramzi Mabsout
From a recent Ethiopian representative household survey this paper empirically operationalizes concepts from the capability approach to shed light on the relationship between conversion factors, capability inputs and health functionings. Th...
Financial Satisfaction and (in)formal Sector in a Transition Country [0.03%]
转型国家中的金融满意度与正式和非正式部门关系研究
Ada Ferrer-I-Carbonell,Klarita Gërxhani
Ada Ferrer-I-Carbonell
This paper examines the relationship between working in the formal or informal sector and self-reported individual financial satisfaction in a country in transition. It does so by allowing for individual heterogeneity in terms of perceived ...