Reported happiness provides a potentially useful way to evaluate unpriced goods and events; but measures of subjective … interpretation. Previous work tends to estimate time-invariant effects of events on happiness. In the presence of hedonic adaptation … provides a flexible, extensible econometric framework that accommodates adaptation and permits the comparison of happiness …

unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …, there is a large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research …

of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life satisfaction; whether life is worthwhile; anxiety and depression … in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …