capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …

pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … than it is in Great Britain; by contrast, in Great Britain the occupation pathway forms the primary channel of …

divorced. There appears to be little correlation between happiness and either gender or education level. We find some evidence …

literature includes influences on individuals’ momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source … effects of working on two aspects of affect: happiness and relaxation. We find paid work is ranked lower than any of the other … equivalent to a 7-8% reduction in happiness relative to circumstances in which one is not working. Paid work has a similar though …

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 …