advantages of taller workers, including psycho-social dimensions. We also find a height premium in happiness, half of which …

, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas … individual decisions, like individual happiness, are determined not only by allocations of goods, but also by an emotional state …

positively correlated with well-being. Yet the famous Easterlin paradox shows essentially no change in average happiness at the …

This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence …. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle …-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering …