emotions such as enjoyment and happiness. They are also less likely to report a range of negative experiences, like sadness …

from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at …

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of … in status and 52% of one standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and …

, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases … indicate smoothing of consumption through savings or other mechanisms. Finally, our limited happiness measures show no …

unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …, there is a large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research …