Understanding the AI and subjective well-being relationship: the influence of macroeconomic factors in Asian economies
This study empirically examines the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the subjective well-being (SWB) of 29 Asia–Pacific economies over the period 2019–2024. The study considers the measures of both the cognitive and affective components of SWB as the dependent variable. The Government AI Readiness Index was used to measure AI. We employ the econometric techniques of instrumental-variable