significantly moderated by an increase in happiness for the person making the judgment. …

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … comparisons in determining happiness. -- Happiness ; subjective well-being ; Easterlin Paradox ; life satisfaction ; economic …

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 …

over the world currently use ad hoc methods. -- disability ; adaptation ; happiness ; legal compensation ; wellbeing ; GHQ …

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for … compensation amounts are discussed. -- Bereavement ; damages ; happiness ; compensation ; well-being ; GHQ scores …

British population view themselves as overweight, and that happiness and mental health are worse among fatter people in both …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …