happiness data or assumes that felt happiness is more or less the same thing as flow utility. The approach we propose in this … paper steers a middle course between the two polar views that "happiness is irrelevant to Economics" and the view that … "happiness is a sufficient statistic for utility." …

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics …

) to extract systematic information on critical junctures, sources of meaning, and overall life satisfaction. Under …

happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well … have some of the lowest levels of job satisfaction in the world. Moreover, among the sub-sample of English-speaking nations …, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness …

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 …

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in … with greater life satisfaction at all ages, but especially so at ages 60 and above, in some samples deepening the U …-shape in age by increasing the size of the life satisfaction gains following the mid-life low …