happiness research in economics. A dataset of 154 Benedictine nuns is analyzed. The main objective is to identify the most … important determinants of happiness of Benedictines and to empirically evaluate the hypothesis that they have very high …

effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …

best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …

self-reported happiness. Using panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), we begin by … estimating ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions of happiness on a measure of MSA-level segregation, controlling for a rich … associated with a reduction in happiness among blacks. To deal more appropriately with the potential endogeneity of location …

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

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness …-shaped relation between status and happiness. The same trend is much less pronounced in data on 1000 individuals living in the state …