We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U … effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty raises happiness, with a one standard-deviation change in beauty generating … about 0.10 standard deviations of additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide …

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …-country phenomenon. Our stand is that the idea that growth will increase happiness in low-income countries cannot be rejected on the …

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 …