Les Misérables: analysing low SWB around the world

This new paper, written with George Melios and Kate Laffan, uses data from Gallup to show that, among other things, the country you live in plays a bigger part in reporting a miserable life than in feeling miserable day to day. The paper explains the relative importance of individual and country-level factors in predicting both evaluative and experiential low subjective wellbeing. Read the paper here.