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This study was conducted in order to investigate the relationships between different factors affecting happiness of adolescents, which is crucial to enhancing happiness of adolescents in OECD 20 countries, and to put forward policy implications whereby each country may raise the level of its happiness of adolescents. HBSC score was selected as an indicator representing the happiness of adolescents of OECD 20 countries, and this included a number of independent variables, such as per capita GDP, total public expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP, and total per capita public expenditure on education (US dollars), affecting happiness of adolescents. We employed the structural equation modeling approach to analyze the complex causal relationships among the factors affecting happiness of adolescents. The research results show that the significant factors affecting happiness of adolescents are: total expenditure on education by private source as a percentage of GDP, educational decentralization, pupil–teacher ratio, and that the most influential factor affecting happiness of adolescents directly is total expenditure on education by private source as a percentage of GDP.