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 …

Reported happiness provides a potentially useful way to evaluate unpriced goods and events; but measures of subjective … interpretation. Previous work tends to estimate time-invariant effects of events on happiness. In the presence of hedonic adaptation … provides a flexible, extensible econometric framework that accommodates adaptation and permits the comparison of happiness …

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …

were asked. People with higher incomes in any given year and location report higher levels of happiness, and people … interviewed on days when air pollution was worse than the local seasonal average report lower levels of happiness. Combining these …