that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

longer term residents, and yet some people continue to move to these areas. While the historical data on happiness are … interpretation of these facts is that individuals do not aim to maximize self-reported well-being, or happiness, as measured in … surveys, and they willingly endure less happiness in exchange for higher incomes or lower housing costs. In this view …

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using … greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation … may take over 5 years so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long …