happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader … in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising happiness … determining happiness. …

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from … this literature is that people exhibit a baseline happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have … shown that genes play a significant role in explaining the variance of baseline happiness between individuals. However …

vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With …

economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300 …. Independent longitudinal data corroborate the finding, showing that happiness is predictive of future motor vehicle accidents. Our …

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 …

' response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …

be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R …