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

This investigation employs dynamic panel analysis to provide new insights into the phenomenon of adaptation. Using the … British Household Panel Survey, it is demonstrated that happiness is largely (but not wholly) contemporaneous. This can help …

lottery windfalls to terminal illnesses. We propose a subtle but critical difference: current happiness may depend directly on … past happiness. We test our hypothesis running dynamic happiness regressions using panel data from the German Socio … economists and non-economists, the coefficient on lagged happiness is positive and statistically significant. We discuss some …

This investigation discusses and employs dynamic panel analysis to provide new insights into the concept of happiness …. Using the British Household Panel Survey, it is demonstrated that happiness is largely (but not wholly) contemporaneous …. This helps to provide explanations for previous findings, inform the adaptation discussion, and generate new understanding …