This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

concentrations of ethnic minority populations. We also explore one consequence of coresidency, reported happiness. We find that … of happiness, we find again that socioeconomic and demographic conditions matter, as does ethnicity. Controlling all else …, coresidency increases the happiness of the elderly by about 28 percent. Moreover, the unobserved characteristics that drive …

women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …

' response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …

Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness … significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual's future reemployment … predicted by a number of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. This paper is the first to show that happiness is mainly …

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 …