@techreport{Senik2011French,
abstract = {This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus psychological and cultural factors. The latter turns out to be of non-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80% of the country's unobserved idiosyncratic source of (un-)happiness.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Claudia Senik},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I31; H52; O15; O52; Z10; 330; happiness; subjective well-being; international comparisons; France; immigration; European Social Survey; Zufriedenheit; Lebensqualit\"{a}t; Sozialpsychologie; Vergleich; Frankreich; Europa},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201103063},
number = {6175},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {The French unhappiness puzzle: The cultural dimension of happiness},
type = {Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58436},
year = {2011}
}
