Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data … revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being among blacks relative to whites. Investigating various measures of well …-being, we find that the well-being of blacks has increased both absolutely and relative to that of whites. While a racial gap in …