Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being that are of importance … to economics. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a 'baseline' level of happiness that shows … persistent strength over time. Here we explore the extent to which baseline happiness is infl uenced by genetic variation. Using …

an economic analysis of happiness are shown and illustrated with two specific applications. The relationship between … the value of public goods. The short discussion of governmental „happiness policy“ from a constitutional viewpoint … suggests a comparative institutional analysis of subjective well-being. The happiness revolution in economics is only at its …

together with a review of various important findings from social perception studies (minimum income, happiness, subjective …

A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only … self-assessed discrete happiness data have been used for research into the determinants of happiness. However, distribution …

happiness in a large Dutch internet panel survey. We find that slower responses and higher cognitive effort reduce reported … happiness. Moreover, in multivariate happiness equations, these factors moderate the estimated effect of income on happiness …, while no interaction effects are found for other determinants of happiness. As a consequence, relative marginal effects may …

typical “Tullock Challenges”. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second …

The measurement of individual happiness challenges the notion that revealed preferences only reliably and empirically … includes concepts like experience and procedural utility. Micro- and macroeconometric happiness functions offer new insights on … determinants of life satisfaction. However, one should not leap to the conclusion that happiness should be maximised, as was …