We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling … edge medical technologies) lead in the static (time-invariant) explanation of happiness and its gender gap, while economic …, the Happiness and Economics field has provided original evidence on the country and time variant nature of the happiness …

well-being’, ‘affect’, ‘life satisfaction’, and ‘happiness’. It describes their measurements and operationalizations in …Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

This study discusses and employs dynamic panel data to investigate life satisfaction. A key result is that … lagged life satisfaction has a small, positive and significant effect on current life satisfaction. A related key benefit of …

The “Hedonistic Paradox” states that homo economicus, or someone who seeks happiness for him- or herself, will not find … it, but the person who helps others will. This study examines two questions in connection with happiness and generosity …. First, do more generous people, as identified in dictator experiments, report on average greater happiness, or subjective …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …