This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …

-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of …

have positive effects on other measures of well-being, including social and overall happiness in school, time allocated for …

satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as …

unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …