.e., SWB is directly related to several measures of happiness and inversely related to unhappiness) and examine various …The “Hedonistic Paradox” states that homo economicus, or someone who seeks happiness for him- or herself, will not find … it, but the person who helps others will. This study examines two questions in connection with happiness and generosity …

This study explores the factors that affect an individual’s happiness while transitioning into retirement. Recent … Retirement Study, this study explores what shapes the change in happiness between the last wave of full employment and the first …

This study explores the factors that affect an individual’s happiness while transitioning into retirement. Recent … Retirement Study, this study explores what shapes the change in happiness between the last wave of full employment and the first …

happiness of its members, yet wealthy societies and people are happier than those with low income. Using recent data from Social … individuals, the direction of the relationship is reversed: well-being determines income. Money buys happiness when income is too … low to satisfy basic needs, and happiness brings money when income satisfies basic needs. …

well-being’, ‘affect’, ‘life satisfaction’, and ‘happiness’. It describes their measurements and operationalizations in …Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co …

Previous happiness research has explicitly assumed that subjective well-being is U-shaped in age. This paper sheds new … life satisfaction reaches another local maximum around the age of 83, with a level identical to that of a 26-years old …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

How SWB affects individual states, outcomes, or decisions is well established in the literature, but how it affects … high SWB and choice for rapid economic growth or stable economy. This conclusion holds for people in the upper-income and …-income countries attend less to either rapid economic growth or stable economy regardless of their SWB. …