-post employment outcomes. Finally, believing that one earns more than peers causally leads to large positive effects on happiness …

, happiness, ladder--and new SWB questions. Respondents put most weight on the present and on themselves--but not enough to …

-reported happiness. We relate our empirical findings to existing models of elation, reference dependence, and belief formation. In … motivated beliefs), we provide novel results that extend the literature in four dimensions. First, happiness responds to changes …, expectations affect happiness in a nonlinear way, consistent with Gul's model of disappointment aversion, but contrary to other …

wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … in happiness data regarding whether males are happier than females but find little variation by month in unhappiness data … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …

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