@techreport{NBERw11807,
 title = "Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?",
 author = "John Helliwell",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "11807",
 year = "2005",
 month = "December",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w11807",
 abstract = {This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being beyond those flowing through economic channels. Cross-national samples (supported by parallel analysis of suicide data) show large well-being effects from social capital and from the quality of government. Finally, Canadian life-satisfaction data show that several non-financial job characteristics, and especially the climate of workplace trust, have very large income-equivalent effects.},
}