for defining unhappiness (dissatisfaction) and high levels of happiness (satisfaction). While misery appears to strongly … unhappiness varies a great deal more across social groups than (high levels of) happiness does. Our findings are robust to several … alternative specifications, using both self-reported life satisfaction and self-reported happiness, and different cut-off points …

for defining unhappiness (dissatisfaction) and high levels of happiness (satisfaction). While misery appears to strongly … unhappiness varies a great deal more across social groups than (high levels of) happiness does. Our findings are robust to several … alternative specifications, using both self-reported life satisfaction and self-reported happiness, and different cut-off points …

earthquake on the happiness of surviving victims. After controlling for individual characteristics and characteristics of …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling … edge medical technologies) lead in the static (time-invariant) explanation of happiness and its gender gap, while economic …, the Happiness and Economics field has provided original evidence on the country and time variant nature of the happiness …

This study discusses and employs dynamic panel data to investigate life satisfaction. A key result is that … lagged life satisfaction has a small, positive and significant effect on current life satisfaction. A related key benefit of …