We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of …

Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …

self-reported happiness as a channel through which sunshine affects financial variables. I examine the influence of … happiness on risk-taking behavior by instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, and I find that happy people …

I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the … Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest …

activities which is not explicit in Sen’s original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … some cases the association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting …