this study uses individual-level data from the 2005–2008 Ghana World Values
survey (n=1 533), to explore the extent to which marriage is associated with
subjective well-being (sWB) in Ghana. the analyses are carried out at three
levels: the first part presents the distr... Read More

The science of subjective well-beingis a collection of works by important authors in
the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It is categorised into six major sections:
The realm of subjective well-being; Measuring subjective well-being; The happy
person; Subjective well-bei... Read More

Research on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB) has witnessed a
remarkable growth over the past four decades or so. Since Easterlin’s (1974) seminal
contribution on the relationship between happiness and income, thousands of studies
have followed that examin... Read More

Personal well-being surveys have increased their coverage on the African
continent in recent years, but detailed research on subjective national wellbeing is less common. the link between national well-being and xenophobic
sentiments has not been adequately tested in an African con... Read More

We investigate differences in subjective well-being (life satisfaction) within the
household using matched data on co-resident couples drawn from the 2008
national Income Dynamics study for south Africa. the majority of men and
women in co-resident partnerships report differe... Read More

the aim of this article is to analyse and describe the perceptions of poverty
and subjective well-being as described by the “poor” in namibia, using
Amartya sen’s multidimensional theoretical framework of Poverty (Capability
approach). the paper utilises qua... Read More

Previous studies on the determinants of subjective well-being concur on the
importance of relative income, i.e., the fact that individuals’ subjective well-being
is dependent on how well they are doing in relation to their reference group.
Using south African data from ... Read More