Well-being, social capital, and public policy
Subtitle: what's new?
By: John F. Helliwell
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 11807; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 11807.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Happiness; Social capital (Sociology); Public welfare
Description: "This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being.  Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being beyond those flowing through economic channels.  Cross-national samples (supported by parallel analysis of suicide data) show large well-being effects from social capital and from the quality of government.  Finally, Canadian life-satisfaction data show that several non-financial job characteristics, and especially the climate of workplace trust, have very large income-equivalent effects"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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