%0 Report
        %A Senik, Claudia
        %T The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6175
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6175
        %X 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.
        %K immigration
%K France
%K international comparisons
%K subjective well-being
%K happiness
%K European Social Survey