This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …

Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or …

traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …

their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases …. Assuming that lockdowns constrain married people to spend time solely with their spouses, simulations show that their happiness … this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lockdowns impose solitude on singles, their happiness was …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …