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Main publications Ruut Veenhoven

since 1984	World Database of Happiness: Continuous register of research on subjective appreciation of life This database involves six related inventories: 1) Bibliography of Happiness, 2) Item Bank, 3) Distributional Findings, 4) Correlational Findings, 5) Directory of Investigators, 6) States of nations.	books website
2006a	Rising happiness in nations,1946-2004. A reply to Easterlin Social Indicators Research, vol. 79, 421-436, DOI 10.1007/s11205-005-5074-x Together with Micheal Hagerty	abstract full text
2004c	The greatest happiness principle. Happiness as a public policy aim. In: Linley, P.A. & Joseph, S. (eds.) 'Positive psychology in practice', chapter 39, Publisher: John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA, ISBN 0471459062	abstract full text
2002f	Why social policy needs subjective indicators Social Indicators Research, 2002, vol 58, pp 33-45, ISSN 0303-8300 Also published in: Hagerty M.R., Vogel, J., & Moller, V. (eds) ‘Assessing quality of life and living conditions to guide national policy. The state of the art’, Social Indicators Research Series vol 11, pp. 33-45, Kluwer Academic, 2002, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, ISBN 1-4020-0727-2	abstract in English abstract in Spanish full text in English
2000c	The four qualities of life: Ordering concepts and measures of the good life Journal Of Happiness Studies, 2000, vol 1, pp 1-39	abstrac in English full text in English full text in Spanish
2000b	Well-being in the welfare state: Level not higher, distribution not more equitable Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2000, vol 2, pp 91-125	abstract full text data matrix
1999a	Quality-of-life in individualistic society: A comparison of 43 nations in the early 1990's Social Indicators Research, 1999, vol 48, pp 157-186 (Prize paper)	abstract full text
1997c	Advances in the understanding of happiness (published in French) Revue québécoise de psychologie, vol 18, nr 2, pp 29-74, ISSN 0225-9885. Earlier English versions published in: 1) F. Strack, M. Argyle & N. Schwarz (eds.), 'Subjective Well-being: An Interdisciplinairy Perspective', Pergamon Press, 1991, London, pp. 7-26. 2) Saris, W.E. et.al. (eds):'A comparative study of satisfaction with life in Europe', Eötvös University Press, Budapest, chapter 1, pp 11-48	abstract in English abstract in French full text in French full text in Spanish
1996b	Happy life-expectancy. A comprehensive measure of quality-of-life in nations Social Indicators Research, vol 39 1-58	abstract full text
1995b	The cross-cultural pattern of happiness. Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness Social Indicators Research, vol 34 p 33-68 (with Joop Ehrhardt)	abstract full text
1994a	Is happiness a trait? Tests of the theory that a better society does not make people any happier Social Indicators Research, vol 32, p 101-160 Reprinted in: Michalos, A. (ed) 'Citation classics from Social Indicators Research', Social Indicators Research Series vol. 26, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, ISBN 1-4020-3722-8, pp. 477-536	abstract full text
1991a	Is happiness relative? Social Indicators Research, vol. 24, pp. 1-34.	abstract full text
1989b	Did the crisis really hurt? Effects of the 1980-82 economic recession on satisfaction, mental health and mortality (editor, with Aldi Hagenaars) University Press Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 90 277 2279 5, 305 p. Editorial contributions: 'Introduction to the question' (with Aldi.Hagenaars) pp. 1-22, 'Conclusions' pp. 281-289.	book abstract contents + chapter abstracts text introduction text conclusions
1989a	How harmful is happiness? Consequences of enjoying life or not (editor) University Press Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 90 237 28898, 137 p. Editorial contributions: 'Introduction' pp. 1-6, 'Conclusions' pp. 128-36.	bookabstract contents + chapter abstracts text introduction text conclusions
1984a	Conditions of Happiness D.Reidel, Dordrecht/Boston, 461 p. Reprinted in 1989 by Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht/Boston.	book abstract contents + chapter abstracts text conclusions order book