We develop a framework for analyzing national income accounting using a revealed welfare approach that is sufficiently … welfare properties of comprehensive national income accounting, which were previously ascribed only to the discounted …

happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income …

their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that … only income relative to others was related to well-being. In this paper, we review the evidence to assess the importance of … absolute and relative income in determining well-being. Our research suggests that absolute income plays a major role in …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in … about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear …

We develop and estimate a model of jointly optimal income taxes for different types of income. Compared to standard … optimal tax formulas, optimal schedular income tax rates additionally depend on cross-elasticities between tax bases capturing … fiscal externalities. We discuss two applications: the taxation of different income sources such as labor or capital income …

question is how to introduce natural resource use in national income accounts to give meaning to the notion of sustainability …? National income accounts do not take into account non-market activities. Some progress has been made in the theory and …