."..chapters in this book will motivate researchers to construe
their scientific findings in a
variety of ways...This book is highly recommended to anyone hoping
to pursue research on well-being in an international context or
planning to analyze international survey databases."
--PsycCRITIQUES
Introduction
Part I Measuring Well-Being in an International Context
Chapter 1: Diener, Kahneman, Tov and Arora
Chapter 2: Kahneman, Schkade, Fischler, Krueger and Krilla
Chapter 3: Oishi
Chapter 4: Kapteyn, Smith and van Soest
Chapter 5: Deaton, Fortson and Tortora
Part II International Comparisons of Income and Well-Being through
Time
Chapter 6: Layard, Mayraz and Nickell
Chapter 7: Easterlin and Sawangfa
Chapter 8: Di Tella and MacCulloch
Chapter 9: Graham, Chattopadhyay and Picon
Part III International Differences in the Social Context of
Well-Being
Chapter 10: Helliwell, Barrington-Leigh, Harris and Huang
Chapter 11: Veenhoven
Chapter 12: Inglehart
Chapter 13: Harter and Arora
Chapter 14: Clark
ED: Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the
University of Illinois, and currently the president of IPPA, the
International Positive Psychology Association (2008 & 2009).DK:
Nobel Prize winner (2002, Economic Science), and Senior Scholar at
the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He
is also Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the
Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of
Psychology
Emeritus at Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for
Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.JH: Arthur J.E.
Child Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research, and
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of British Columbia
"...chapters in this book will motivate researchers to construe
their scientific findings in a
variety of ways...This book is highly recommended to anyone hoping
to pursue research on well-being in an international context or
planning to analyze international survey databases."
--PsycCRITIQUES
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