Stefano M. Iacus

Two Americas of Well-Being: Divergent Rural–Urban Patterns of Life Satisfaction and Happiness from 2.6 B Social Media Posts

Abstract Using 2.6 billion geolocated tweets (2014–2022) and a fine-tuned generative language model, we construct county-level indicators of life satisfaction and happiness for the United States. We document an apparent rural–urban paradox : even in unadjusted county-level means,...