This ninth World Happiness Report is unlike any that have come before. COVID-19 has shaken,
taken, and reshaped lives everywhere. In this chapter, our central purpose remains just …

This is the eighth World Happiness Report. Its central purpose remains as it was for the first
Report, to review the science of measuring and understanding subjective well-being, and to …

Most California vineyards are eventually attacked by one or more grapevine trunk diseases (Esca
or Botryosphaeria-, Eutypa- and Phomopsis diebacks). These fungal pathogens cause …

This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for
interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature …

Numerous countries cut payroll taxes in response to COVID-19, including China, which
reduced employer contributions by up to 21 percentage points. We use administrative data on …

A well-being approach requires looking beyond COVID-19 deaths to compare the performance
of elimination versus mitigation strategies as measured by other important supports for …

… The table also reports the minimum and maximum values taken by each measure in order
to convey the range of values across the 157 countries and 14 years in our panel of countries.…

During the past decade there has been a demand for rapid and reliable methods of auditory
screening of large numbers of individuals. In most schools and industrial plants the …

Examines the nature and function of attribution in the causal schema of the near-death
experience (NDE). The function of causal attributions is analyzed. Two matrices representing the …

This is the second in a three-part study exploring the hypothesis that near-death
experiences (NDErs) assign the meaning of the NDE by using causal (effect) and semantic (affect) …