TY - BOOK ID - 134211054 TI - Social capital, economic growth and Well-being PY - 2012 PB - Firenze : Firenze University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Quality of life. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134211054 AB - In the long run economic growth does not improve people's well-being. Traditional theories – adaptation and social comparisons – explain this evidence, but they don't explain what shapes the trend of subjective well-being and its differences across countries. Recent research identified in social capital a plausible candidate to explain the trends of well-being. This dissertation adopts various econometric techniques to explore the relationship over time among social capital, economic growth and subjective well-being. The main conclusion is that social capital is a good predictor of the trend of subjective well-being, both within and across countries. Hence, policies for well-being should aim at preserving and enhancing social capital for the quality of the social environment matters. ER -