society. It is also found that relative income is more important to happiness at higher levels of absolute income. Potential …

We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in … boost happiness of all. 3) Intelligence is a happiness- boosting tool, which should be more developed by low …

personally reduces life satisfaction, but does not have a significant effect on happiness in ordered logit estimation. However …, generalized ordered logit estimation reveals that being unemployed has a negative effect on happiness at lower happiness scores …, but no significant effect at high happiness levels. …

Are happiness patterns structurally the same when comparing poor and rich countries? Using cross-sectional data from … durable assets ownership seem to determine happiness levels as well as income. Relative income also matters to well …

-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, we find a …

The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable … that the happiness responses of almost 400,000 people living in the OECD during 1975-97 are positively correlated with …, the biggest contributors to happiness in our sample have been the increase in income and the increase in life expectancy …