Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et … Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest happiness levels occurring during middle age (Easterlin, 2006 … and cohorteffects. Secondly, all empirical research lacks a theoretical explanation as to why age affects happiness. The …

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 …

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …

and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

Recently there has been much public discussion about children spending long afternoons alone at home. It has been … claimed that spending a lot of time alone makes children vulnerable to many kinds of risk behaviour, such as smoking, use of … alcohol and drugs, depression and poor school performance. Concerns have also been voiced about children’s unsupervised …