Social capital and subjective well-being
Essential readings
Becchetti, L., Pelloni, A., Rossetti, F. (2008). Relational Goods, Sociability, and Happiness. Kyklos 61 (3), 343-363
This paper empirically investigates the impact of relational goods on individual life satisfaction...
Bartolini, S., Bilancini, E., Pugno, M. (2008). Did the Decline in Social Capital Decrease American Happiness? A Relational Explanation of the Happiness Paradox. University of Siena Dept of Economics working paper 513
Most popular explanations of the happiness paradox cannot fully account for the lack of growth in U...
Sabatini, F. (2011). Can a click buy a little happiness? The impact of business-to-consumer e-commerce on subjective well-being. MPRA Paper 32393
This paper presents the first empirical investigation into the effect of e-shopping on subjective...
Important readings
Bjørnskov, C.(2003). The Happy Few. Cross-Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life Satisfaction
I examine why the populations of certain countries are so much more satisfied with their lives than...
Reading list archive
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era. Sapienza University of Rome, mimeo
The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world...
Antoci, A., Sacco, P. L., Vanin, P. (2007). Social capital accumulation and the evolution of social participation. The Journal of Socio-Economics 36, 128–143
We study the co-evolution of social participation and social capital accumulation, taking the view...
Aslam, A., Corrado, L. (2007). No Man is an Island, the Inter-personal Determinants of Regional Well-Being in Europe. Cambridge Working Papers in Economics n. 0717
There is a strong need to complement the analysis of social well-being at the European regional...
Bartolini, S., Bilancini, E. (2011). Social Participation and Hours Worked. Department of Economics University of Siena Working Paper No. 620
We investigate the relationship between social participation and the hours worked in the market....
Bartolini, S., Sarracino, F. (2011). Happy for How Long? How Social Capital and GDP relate to Happiness over Time. Department of Economics University of Siena No. 621
What does predict the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We answer this question...
Bjørnskov, C. (2008). Social Capital and Happiness in the United States. Applied Research in Quality of Life 3 (8), 43-62
This paper explores the association between social capital and average happiness in the United...
Bjørnskov, C. (2010). How Comparable are the Gallup World Poll Life Satisfaction Data? Journal of Happiness Studies 11 (1), 41-60
This paper explores the degree to which the new data on life satisfaction from the Gallup World...
Bjørnskov, C., Dreher, A., Fischer, J.A.V. (2008). Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: Exploring different determinants across groups in society. Social Choice and Welfare 30 (1), 119-173
This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a...
Bruni, L., Comim, F., Pugno, M. (2008). Capabilities and Happiness. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human...
Bruni, L., Stanca, L. (2006). Income Aspirations, Television and Happiness: Evidence from the World Values Survey. Kyklos, 59 (2), 209-225
This paper investigates the role of television in producing higher material aspirations, by...
Bruni, L., Stanca, L. (2008). Watching alone: Relational goods, television and happiness. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65 (3-4), 506-528
This paper investigates the role of relational goods for subjective well-being. Using a large...
Castronova E., Wagner G. G. (2011). Virtual Life Satisfaction. Kyklos 64 (3), 313-328
We study life satisfaction data from the 2005 World Values Survey and a 2009 survey of users of the...
Clark, A. E. (2011). Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by...
Costa, D., Kahn, M. (2010). Health, Wartime Stress, and Unit Cohesion: Evidence from Union Army Veterans. Demography 47(1): 45-66.
We fi nd that Union Army veterans of the American Civil War who faced greater wartime stress (as...
Diener, E., Heliwell, J. F., Kanheman, D. (2010). International Differences in Well-Being. New York: Oxford University Press
This book draws together the latest work from scholars around the world using subjective well-being...
