TY  - BOOK
AU  - Easterlin,Richard A.
AU  - O'Connor,Kelsey James
TI  - The happiness revolution in Europe
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in economics of European integration
SN  - 9781009493697 (ebook)
AV  - HN374 .E37 2025
U1  - 306.094 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Europe
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Income distribution
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025); Open Access
N2  - There is now a Happiness Revolution to go along with the earlier Industrial and Demographic Revolutions. The Happiness Revolution is captured using people's happiness scores, as reported in public surveys, whereas the earlier revolutions are reflected by economic production (such as GDP) and life expectancy. Increases in happiness are chiefly due to social-science welfare policies that alleviate people's foremost concerns - those centering on family life, health, and jobs. This Element traces the course of the Happiness Revolution throughout Europe since the 1980s when comprehensive and comparable data on people's happiness first become available. Which countries lead and which lag? How is happiness distributed - are the rich happier than the poor, men than women, old than young, native than foreign born, city than countryfolk? How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted happiness? These are among the questions addressed in this Element. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009493697
ER  -