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 …

The recent surge in analyses of subjective well-being (SWB) and the economics of happiness using large observational … stylized facts into question. This chapter explores the important contributions that happiness-in-the-lab experiments can make … distinction is made between happiness-in-the-lab experiments in which SWB is a dependent versus independent variable, and methods …

Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness …

, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment Analysis to a …