In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time … happiness can be predicted rather closely from the mean satisfaction people report with each of four domains – finances, family … happiness, they come together in a way that explains quite well the overall patterns of happiness. The importance of any given …

employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world. …

accompanying dissolution of the social safety net along with growing income inequality. The burden of worsening life satisfaction …

Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … artifact. Some analysts assert that in less developed countries happiness and economic growth are positively related up to some …

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 …

others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

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 …

accompanying dissolution of the social safety net along with growing income inequality. The burden of worsening life satisfaction …