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...
Bruni, L. (2012). The Wound and the Blessing: Economics, Relationships, and Happiness. New York: New City Press
The crisis that market societies are undergoing is essentially a crisis of relationships. It...
Sabatini, F., Sarracino, F. (2014). Online networks and subjective well-being. MPRA Paper 56436.
Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results...
Reading list archive
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...
Demir, M., Weitenkamp, L. (2007). I am so Happy ’Cause Today I Found My Friend: Friendship and Personality as Predictors of Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies 8 (2), 181-211.
Relying on the theoretical model of [Lyubomirsky et al. 2005, Review of General Psychology, 9...
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...
Diener, E., Seligman, M. (2004). Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-Being. Psychological Science in the Public Interest 5 (1), 1-31
Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more heavily...
Easterlin, R. A. (2010). Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Second in a series of books published in conjunction with the IZA Institute for the Study of...
Frijters, P. (2013). An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to...
Growiec, J., Growiec, K. (2010). Social Capital, Well-Being, and Earnings: Theory and Evidence from Poland. MPRA Paper 7071
We study the relationship between two distinct dimensions of social capital (bridging and bonding...
Growiec, J., Growiec, K. (2010). Trusting Only Whom You Know, Knowing Only Whom You Trust: The Joint Impact of Social Capital and Trust on Individuals' Economic Performance and Well-Being in CEE Countries. MPRA Paper 23350
This paper provides evidence that bridging and bonding social capital as well as social trust may...
Guven, C. (2011). Are Happier People Better Citizens? Kyklos 64 (2), 178–192
This paper offers new findings which support the hypothesis that a causal link from happiness to...
Heliwell, J. F., Barrington-Leigh, C. (2010). Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being. Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (3), 729-753
Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of...
Helliwell, J. F., Huang, H. (2009). How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace. Industrial and Labor Relation Review 63 (2), 205-227.
The authors first investigate how income and job characteristics affect life satisfaction, then...
Helliwell, J. F., Huang, H. (2011). Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace. Journal of Happiness Studies, DOI: 10.1007/s10902-010-9225-7
This paper uses life satisfaction regressions based on three surveys in two countries (Canada and...
Helliwell, J. F., Putnam, R. D. (2005). The social context of well-being. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Large samples of data from the World Values Survey, the US Benchmark Survey and a comparable...
Hooghe, M., Vanhoutte, B. (2011). Subjective Well-Being and Social Capital in Belgian Communities. Social Indicators Research 100 (1), 17-36
In this article, we investigate the effect of individual and community level characteristics on...
Illingworth, P. (2012). Us Before Me Ethics and Social Capital for Global Well-Being. Palgrave MacMillan
In Us before Me, a philosopher argues that persistent, unabated human suffering requires that the...