, on SWB is hard to reconcile with set-point theory. It is more in line with authentic happiness theory. -- SWB ; life … satisfaction ; set-point theory ; authentic happiness theory ; longitudinal analysis ; SOEP …

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 …

to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …

practices have been less prevalent in the economy 20 years ago. -- Gender gap ; happiness ; well-being ; discrimination ; life …

performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest … that the conclusions reached by previous studies are fairly sensitive to the specific measure of 'happiness' used. In …

; happiness ; race …

-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have … grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness … from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness …