Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New? / John Helliwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helliwell, John.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11807.

NBER working paper series no. w11807

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2005.