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 …

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 …

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

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 …

estimating individuals’ utility losses using life satisfaction or happiness data is presented. This paper also discusses a …

Cross-disciplinary ‘happiness research’ has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This … development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we … postulate that the appropriate approach is not to maximize aggregate happiness in seeking to improve outcomes by direct policy …