TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Senik, Claudia
        TI  - The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
        PY  - 2011/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6175
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6175
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - immigration
KW  - France
KW  - international comparisons
KW  - subjective well-being
KW  - happiness
KW  - European Social Survey
        ER  -