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 …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this …