@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6175,
            	author={Senik, Claudia},
            	title={The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness},
            	year={2011},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={6175},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6175},
	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.},
	keywords={immigration;France;international comparisons;subjective well-being;happiness;European Social Survey},
            }