TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helliwell,John
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New? 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - December 2005; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w11807
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w11807
ER  -