In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

We show that, without strong auxiliary assumptions, it is impossible to rank groups by average happiness using survey …-to-Opportunity increases happiness, men have become happier relative to women, and an Easterlin paradox exists depends on whether happiness is …

help to restore to economics the breadth of purpose and methods it had two centuries ago, when happiness was considered the …

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in … government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …

We replicate nine key results from the happiness literature: the Easterlin Paradox, the ‘U-shaped' relation between … happiness and age, the happiness trade-off between inflation and unemployment, cross-country comparisons of happiness, the … impact of the Moving to Opportunity program on happiness, the impact of marriage and children on happiness, the ‘paradox' of …