changes induced by the buying context in terms of regulatory focus, perceived time pressure, and stress. Our propositions …

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect all equally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data … to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvement contributes positively to … source of happiness for the religious. The impact of economic transition has varied greatly across different groups. The main …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within … goods helps to explain this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylised fact arguably comes as a bonus to the Easterlin …

using reported happiness data. This paper uses a difference-in-difference method to empirically measure the impact of rail … access on homeowners’ happiness. My identification strategy takes advantage of micro happiness survey data conducted before … significantly heterogeneity in the effects from better rail access on homeowners’ happiness with respect to different dimensions of …

between these two in the case of basic needs. For the analysis, individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction is used as a … social relations – significantly influence people’s satisfaction, ceteris paribus. Next, the stability of preferences is … between life satisfaction and basic measures of well-being despite the landslide of societal and economic transformation. …

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90 …,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction … these variables on individual life satisfaction and test the robustness of our results with Extreme Bounds Analysis. The …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small—yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …

Do other peoples’ incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …