This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …

have positive effects on other measures of well-being, including social and overall happiness in school, time allocated for …

satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as …