This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …

-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely …-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are particularly optimistic … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … correlations between life and health satisfaction and health measures shows that happiness (or self-reported health) measures … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita …

of happiness. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), we examine whether households who contribute to a … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for …

life satisfaction that persist for over a decade and show no evidence of dissipating with time. The estimated treatment … effects on happiness and mental health are significantly smaller, suggesting that wealth has greater long-run effects on … evaluative measures of well-being than on affective ones. Follow-up analyses of domain-specific aspects of life satisfaction …

If satisfaction with life (SWL) is used to measure individual wellbeing, the dispersion of its distribution offers a … happiness differences are related to differences in inequality. A major concern, however, is spurious correlation due to the …

that the well-being benefits of marriage are short-lasting. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we control … find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are …