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 …

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 …

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research … happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income …, unemployment and inflation affect happiness as well as how institutional factors, in particular the type of democracy and the …