“…The fact that researchers can trust the information from self-reported assessments of well-being allowed a burgeoning body of research that involved many social sciences, including economics. For example, happiness measures have been adopted in macro-and micro-economics (see, for instance, Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2006;Di Tella et al, 2003 and in empirical literature 6 in the fields of poverty, unemployment and inequality (Diener et al, 2009;Clark et al, 2012Clark et al, , 2013. Our indicator of subjective well-being has also been extensively used in relation to non-economic aspects such as aging, gender issues, marital and employment status, childbearing as well as to the quality of political institutions (Frey and Stutzer, 2002;Powdthavee, 2007;Stutzer and Frey, 2012).…”