Young woman in protests fighting for freedom, has now become a symbol of resistance

Unsurprisingly, being free makes people happy. In a study from Applied Research in Quality of Life, researchers looked at how different grades of freedom affected peoples’ happiness. They used published reports from the World Database of Happiness. They found that economic and political freedom had the most consistent links to happiness. It also seemed that no country is currently “too free.” Happiness outweighed any negative effects.