Bruce Headey

Alternative Recipes for Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Five World Regions

Bruce Headey, Gisela Trommsdorff, Gert G Wagner

Journal article  |  2021  |  APPLIED RESEARCH IN QUALITY OF LIFE

In most cross-national research on Life Satisfaction (LS) an implicit assumption appears to be that the correlates of LS are the s..

Housing Policy in the Developed Economy: The United Kingdom, Sweden and The United States

B Headey

Book  |  2021

Originally published in 1978, this book analyses three main approaches to national housing policy in the 20th Century in Sweden, t..

The Social Democratic Agenda: The Impact of Scandinavian Social Democratic Regimes on Income Equality, Economic Security, Gender Equality, Levels and Inequality of Life Satisfaction

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels

Book Chapter  |  2021  |  Social Indicators Research Series

Happiness and Longevity: Unhappy People Die Young, Otherwise Happiness Probably Makes No Difference

Bruce Headey, Jongsay Yong

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement

Based on analysis of long-running panel surveys in Germany and Australia, we offer a revised assessment of the relationship betwee..

One Size Does Not Fit All: Alternative Values-Based ‘Recipes’ for Life Satisfaction

B Headey, GG Wagner

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement

In most previous research on the determinants of Life Satisfaction (LS), there has been an implicit assumption that ‘one size fits..

Wealth Influences Life Satisfaction More Than Income: A Supplement to The Easterlin Paradox

Bruce Headey

Book Chapter  |  2019  |  Social Indicators Research Series

The standard view in Life Satisfaction research is that economic well-being has only modest effects on subjective well-being, at l..

A Theory of Life Satisfaction Dynamics: Stability, Change and Volatility in 25-Year Life Trajectories in Germany

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels

Journal article  |  2018  |  SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH

An adequate theory of life satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change..

Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction: German Results with an Australian Replication

B Headey, Gert Wagner

Report  |  2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at ..

Welfare capitalism: The ten year impact of governments on poverty, inequality and financial risk in West Germany, the Netherlands and the USA

B Headey, R Muffels

Book Chapter  |  2018

Mrs Aristotle’s Teeth: How SOEP Transformed Life Satisfaction Research

B Headey, Ruud Muffels

Book Chapter  |  2018