Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective … well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …

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 …

employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world. …

In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time … happiness can be predicted rather closely from the mean satisfaction people report with each of four domains - finances, family … happiness, they come together in a way that explains quite well the overall patterns of happiness. The importance of any given …

other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus adversely affect their own happiness. Most … experienced individual well-being to improve people's happiness. …

The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term – usually a period of 10 y or more … – happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence for this was limited to developed countries …. This article presents evidence that the long term nil relationship between happiness and income holds also for a number of …