longer term residents, and yet some people continue to move to these areas. While the historical data on happiness are … interpretation of these facts is that individuals do not aim to maximize self-reported well-being, or happiness, as measured in … surveys, and they willingly endure less happiness in exchange for higher incomes or lower housing costs. In this view …

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 …