Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … artifact. Some analysts assert that in less developed countries happiness and economic growth are positively related "up to …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …

with it higher income, independence and bargaining power. Yet a decrease in women's subjective well-being over previous … and negative effects for middle household income families. We find similar negative effects on life satisfaction for both …

accompanying dissolution of the social safety net along with growing income inequality. The burden of worsening life satisfaction … the income distribution and increasing life satisfaction in those in the top third. …

racial gaps such as those in income, employment, and education. Much of the current racial gap in well-being can be explained …

happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … the relationship between subject well-being and income observed within countries. Finally, examining the relationship …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not … only in higher income nations but also in countries that account for most of the population of the less-developed world …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world. …

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …