We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which … find staggering health inequality: At age 55, Black men and women have the frailty, or biological age, of White men and … and Hispanic people uncovers even larger health gaps, especially for Black men. Health inequality also emerges as a …

reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

inequality, even as it increases inequality within countries. We emphasize things that GDP cannot do, some familiar--like its …

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 …

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using … greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation … may take over 5 years so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long …