distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …

confounders". -- self-employment ; happiness ; matching estimators ; unemployment ; BHPS ; necessity entrepreneurship …

We use a panel vector autoregressions model to examine the coevolution of changes in happiness and changes in income … happiness are associated with subsequent increases in income, marriage, employment, and health variables, while increases in the … these life-domain variables (except health) tend to be followed by decreases in happiness in subsequent periods, suggesting …

health are observed alongside weak increases in well-being after health improvements. -- health ; illness ; happiness …

autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …-being ; happiness ; vector autoregressions ; SOEP ; personality traits …

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 …