This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components – self-reflection, active …-collected data for the UK. ‘Choice’ has been promoted in social policy across many developed welfare states, often on the grounds … that it is instrumentally valuable: choice by service users is said to incentivise providers to enhance quality and …

losses having more than twice as much impact on individual happiness as compared to equivalent gains. We use Gallup World …

time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We cannot reject the hypothesis of complete adaptation to … marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men … of anticipation and adaptation are remarkably similar by sex. …

We look for evidence of adaptation in wellbeing to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data …. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment … phenomenon of adaptation may be a general one, rather than being found only in German data or using single-item wellbeing …

from the British Household Panel Survey to study the process of adaptation based on the individual’s own previous … adaptation over the short term. Over a longer period, those who have experienced falling incomes are less satisfied than those … had constant incomes. This suggests that over a longer period, adaptation to changes in income is asymmetric: people adapt …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. We cannot … identify any cause of poverty entry which explains the overall lack of poverty adaptation. …

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 …